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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 does Tom discover about the Doctor?

2. What does it mean to gain success, according to Tom?

3. What does East do for Tom during the fight?

4. What happens when the teacher realizes he has forgotten his keys?

5. What does East get into the habit of doing?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Tom try to keep his promise to Arthur?

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

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

6. How does this chapter begin?

7. What does East confess?

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

9. How well does Tom do in the fight?

10. What does Tom's reaction during a debate over the Old Testament with East and Arthur show about his idea of compromise?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are several bullies in this novel.

Part 1) Who are the bullies?

Part 2) How do the other Rugby boys deal with them?

Part 3) What role do they play in developing the man that Tom becomes?

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

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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