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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. Tom and East return to Rugby, after a holiday, full of what?

2. Later, on what do Tom, Martin, Arthur, and East set off?

3. Why does the farmer chase the boys?

4. What is the novel's central theme?

5. How is Arthur, physically, at this point in the story?

Short Essay Questions

1. How well does Tom do in the fight?

2. How does Arthur's body handle the trek to the kestrel's nest?

3. What do the boys watching begin to debate?

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

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

6. How does Tom react when we realizes he has broken the promise he had made to his mother?

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

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

9. What does Arthur do when he begins to fear for Tom's safety?

10. The narrator asks the reader to pardon Tom for being filled with more thoughts of the Doctor than of God. What is his explanation for Tom's behavior?

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

Old Brooke gives a speech to the boys before he leaves the school.

Part 1) What does he say in the speech?

Part 2) What makes Old Brooke and the other older boys different from the boys that replace them as the leaders in the school?

Part 3) How does the change in leadership affect the younger boys in the school?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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