Chapters 1-17
What is the name of the poor boy who is born on the same day as Prince Edward?
Who is Tom Canty?
What country is the story primarily set in?
What is England?
Who is the Prince of Wales?
Who is Edward Tudor?
What word means a king or queen?
What is sovereign?
Who has grown up surrounded by wealth and servants?
Who is Edward?
What does Tom dream about having that he does not have as a poor boy?
What is a life of wealth and royalty?
Who is the king of England at the beginning of the story?
Who is King Henry VIII?
Who is Tom Canty's abusive father?
Who is John Canty?
What word means a command or official order from a ruler?
What is decree?
Who has grown up experiencing hunger, poverty, and abuse?
Who is Tom?
Where do Tom and Edward first meet?
What is outside/near the palace at Westminster?
What was the social class of people who lived in poverty and had very little power?
What is the lower/poor class?
Who is Tom's kind and loving mother?
Who is Anne Canty?
What word means to take someone's position or power illegally?
What is usurp?
What important similarity do Edward and Tom share?
What is their physical appearance?
Why does Edward invite Tom into the palace?
What is because he feels sorry for Tom and wants to help him?
Why was being born into a royal family so important in Tudor England?
What is your birth determined your social position, power, wealth, and opportunities?
Who is Miles Hendon?
Who is a gentleman who becomes Edward's protector and friend?
What word means humiliation or loss of dignity?
What is indignity?
How does Edward begin to understand the lives of poor people?
What is he experiences poverty firsthand after being mistaken for Tom?
What happens when Tom and Edward exchange clothes?
What is they look so much alike that people mistake Tom for Edward and Edward for Tom?
What system divided Tudor society into different levels based on wealth, power, and social position?
What is the social hierarchy/class system?
Which character continues to treat Tom as the king even though Tom knows he is actually a pauper?
Who is Hugh Hendon?
What word means the quality of being worthy of respect or honor?
What is dignity?
How does switching clothes affect the boys' understanding of each other's lives?
What is it forces each boy to experience a completely different social position and helps them understand the unfairness of their society?