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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. What does Arthur tell Tom about Martin?

3. How do "we...come to the knowledge of Him?"

4. What does the Doctor tell Young Brooke?

5. What does Tom do after he writes his mother a letter?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tom get into a fight?

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

3. How well does Tom do in the fight?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why does East not get confirmed?

10. What do the boys watching begin to debate?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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