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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. Why do Tom and East go into the village?

2. What are the older boys drinking?

3. At what does the narrator speak at length?

4. Why is East so confident in his knowledge and his worth, even though he has only been at Rugby for six months?

5. What happens shortly after Tom's arrival to a private school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is different about the way Tom travels to school from how one travels to school in the twenty-first century?

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

3. How is Tom's life at Rugby School?

4. What happens later in the evening?

5. What is the narrator's opinion of the English country?

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

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

8. What action makes Tom proud of himself?

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

10. How does Flashman and his cronies treat Tom once he is healed from the last incident?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

The motif equating life to fighting and competition appears frequently throughout this novel.

Part 1) What do the sporting matches throughout the story reveal about Tom's preparation for adulthood?

Part 2) Besides sports, how have his fights and struggles at Rubgy School prepared him for the future?

Part 3) Will Tom continue to have fights and struggles in his adult life? If so, what kinds of fights and struggles? How do you believe he will handle them? Use information from the text to support your response.

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