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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. Where is Tom headed?

2. What does East warn Tom?

3. What involves two men, each carrying a wooden cudgel or club, climbing into what might be described as a kind of boxing ring, and fighting to see who can make the other's scalp bleed first?

4. Who are two people with whom Tom is friends?

5. What does Flashman do when he discovers Tom and East by the fire together?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Tom and East rebel against Flashman's treatment of them?

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

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

4. How does the narrator believe young men may better themselves?

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

6. What key themes appear in this chapter?

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

8. How are the two church services for Tom?

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

10. What happens later in the trip?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Tom is the protagonist.

Part 1) How is Tom's character at the beginning of the story?

Part 2) How does he change after his experiences with Flashman?

Part 3) Why and how does he change by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 2

East and Tom help out Diggs by buying some of his personal belongings at one of Flashman's auctions.

Part 1) Why are Diggs' belongings being sold?

Part 2) Why do East and Tom do this for Diggs?

Part 3) How does this affect Diggs, Tom, and East?

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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