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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 game is East's house going to play?

2. How does Tom feel about the disappearance of such games and competitions from the culture?

3. Why does Flashman leave the school?

4. What does Diggs, who is studying nearby, tell Tom and East to do to Flashman?

5. At one point, what does Flashman's bullying become?

Short Essay Questions

1. What two incidents teach Tom the foolishness of this poor attitude?

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

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

4. Where does Benjy take Tom? What happens as a result?

5. How are the two church services for Tom?

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

7. What happens later in the evening?

8. What lesson does Tom learn from a boy at the local private school?

9. Describe the Squire's final words to his son.

10. What happens later in the trip?

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

At first, Tom is reluctant to be a mentor to Arthur.

Part 1) Why?

Part 2) What makes him change his mind?

Part 3) How does their relationship as mentor and protege change throughout the book?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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