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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens during an oral examination from the Doctor?

2. What are the excellent qualities of the Brown family?

3. When Tom returns to regular school life after a couple of days of recovery, what does he discover?

4. What happens shortly after Tom's arrival to a private school?

5. Who tells Tom stories about the wild misbehavior of the other Rugby boys he had met?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens later in the evening?

2. How does Tom's first full year begin?

3. What trouble does Tom get into? How is he punished?

4. What key themes appear in this chapter?

5. Why does Tom's respect for the Doctor increase?

6. How does Tom take East's warning about Flashman?

7. How does Flashman and his cronies treat Tom once he is healed from the last incident?

8. How are the two church services for Tom?

9. How do Tom, East, and Diggs get back at Flashman?

10. How is Tom's life at Rugby School?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

East acts as Tom's trainer for the fight with Williams.

Part 1) What is East's advice to Tom?

Part 2) What does Tom do with East's advice?

Part 3) How does Tom's reaction to East's advice reflect his character?

Essay Topic 2

Arthur's father dies from typhus.

Part 1) What about Arthur's father teaches Arthur how to handle this tragedy?

Part 2) What are the circumstances in which Tom learns about this?

Part 3) To what habit of Tom and Arthur's, and eventually East's, does this lead?

Essay Topic 3

The motif equating life to fighting and competition appears frequently throughout this novel.

Part 1) What do the sporting matches throughout the story reveal about Tom's preparation for adulthood?

Part 2) Besides sports, how have his fights and struggles at Rubgy School prepared him for the future?

Part 3) Will Tom continue to have fights and struggles in his adult life? If so, what kinds of fights and struggles? How do you believe he will handle them? Use information from the text to support your response.

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