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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 do East and other boys think about Tom's relationship with Arthur?

2. With whom does Tom get into a fight?

3. How is the fight conducted?

4. What has increased in Tom's life?

5. Why does Tom decide to send Arthur into the game?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is the farmer on the look-out for boys from Rugby?

3. Why does East not get confirmed?

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

5. What do the boys watching begin to debate?

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

7. Why is Arthur crying in Tom's study?

8. What rumor becomes reality?

9. What does Tom immediately understand about his relationship with Arthur, after speaking with a teacher?

10. How does Tom feel about mentoring Arthur?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Diggs encourages Tom and East to stand up for themselves.

Part 1) Why does he encourage this? From whom are the boys defending themselves?

Part 2) How is Diggs mistreated?

Part 3) Does Diggs' stand up for himself? Support your response with details from the story.

Essay Topic 3

Arthur is kind and Christ-like.

Part 1) How is he Christ-like?

Part 2) What role doe he play in this novel? Use details from the story to support your response.

Part 3) How does he influence Tom?

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