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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 is the novel's central theme?

2. What does Tom's final cricket match represent?

3. According to the narrator, how must a young man fight?

4. What has happened by the time Tom and Arthur have left the school?

5. What does Tom understand about his relationship with Arthur?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is the fight a typical school brawl? Explain.

2. What does East confess?

3. What takes place between Young Brooke and the Doctor, after the boys have quickly dispersed?

4. How does East get himself into trouble, regarding the farmer?

5. What does Williams have against Arthur?

6. What does Tom do when it is time to choose which player to send into the game next? What are the results?

7. Why is Arthur worried about Tom's safety in the fight?

8. What does Tom think of Arthur's mother?

9. Two years have passed. How are Arthur, Martin, East, and Tom doing?

10. In what debate does Tom take part? With whom is the debate?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Squire and Tom have a gruff, yet intimate relationship.

Part 1) What does the Squire do before speaking his final words to Tom?

Part 2) What advice does he give Tom?

Part 3) What is Tom's reaction to his father's advice?

Essay Topic 2

Tom associates himself with a group of boys that would rather play and harass the teachers than receive an education.

Part 1) Why does he associate with this group?

Part 2) How does this seem to be a step down from how he is at the beginning of the book and his first days at Rugby School?

Part 3) How does he grow out of this phase?

Essay Topic 3

One of the two antagonists is Flashman.

Part 1) Who is Flashman?

Part 2) How does he act as an antagonist?

Part 3) What is his purpose in the story?

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