Setting
Characters
100% Student Questions
Tom Questions
Edward Questions
100
The nation the story takes place in.

Word bank: Australia, UK, Chicago, Russia

Hint: It is a kingdom that is united.

[if you get this wrong...]

What is the United Kingdom?

100

John Canty's son.

Word bank: you don't need one, but here's one anyway: Tom, tom, otm, mot, tomb

Hint: one of the protagonists

Who is Tom Canty?

100

What did Tom Canty use the Great Seal for? 

Word Bank: marking letters, he didn't use it, cracking nuts

Hint: it is stated at the very-near-end of the book

Cracking nuts.

100

During his rule, the life of which lord did Tom spare?

Word bank: De Courcy, Miles Hendon, Lord Hertford, the Duke of Norfolk

Hint: mentioned in early chapter 5

Who is the Duke of Norfolk?

100

He was Edward's father.

Word bank: Henry I, Henry II, Henry VII, Henry VIII

Hint: He was feared by many, and executed more than 50,000 people

Who is Henry VIII?

200

What is the name of the place where Tom Canty lived as a pauper?

Word bank: Awful Coat, Offal Breakfast, Offal Court, Gaominster palace

What is Offal Court?

200

What is the name of Tom's mother?

Word bank: Jessica, Sadie, the book never mentions her name, Elisabeth

The book never mentions her name.

200

True or false, Tom's mother, father, and grandmother beat him. 

Word bank: True, False

What is false?

200

The person Tom got the most information out of during his reign.

Word bank: Edward Tudor, Miles Hendon, Humphrey Marlow, John Canty 

Who is Humphrey Marlow?

200

How Edward got the title: "Foo-foo the first"

Word bank: a tinker, a ruffler, a convict, John Canty

Who is a tinker?

300

Tom's father's first name.

Word bank: Smith, Anderson, Tom's father, John, Jacob

What is John?

300

How many whips would Hendon get the more if Edward had spoken a single word at the whipping?

word bank: 12, 16, 20, 6

Hendon would have gotten 6 more whips.

300

 Which Street does Tom's Dad live on? 

A. Offal Court 

B. Pudding Lane  

C. Avery Lane 

D. Chicken Street

What is Offal Court?
300

T/F: Henry VIII tells everyone to disregard Tom's unprincely habits.

Word bank: True, False

What is true?

300
T/F: Edward hates Tom.

Word bank: True, False

What is False?

400

These two people saved Edward from the hermit in the forest.

[no word bank]

Who are John Canty and Hugo?

400

The names of Tom's two sisters (in the order that they are typically addressed in the story).

[no word bank]

Who are Nan and Bet?

400

Multiple-choice: Where did Miles Hendon and the true king meet for the first time? 

A. in the palace; 

B. at the gates of the guildhall; 

C. in an alley, where the prince was being ridiculed by thieves; 

D. when King Henry VIII died.

[no word bank]

B.

400

The title Tom Received from Edward in the end of the book.

[no word bank]

Who is the King's Ward?

400

The new last name John Canty gave his family to hide from the law.

[no word bank]

What is Hobbs?

500

The name of the child Tom saw pulled out of the Thames.

[no word bank]

Who is Giles Witt?

500

The name of the whipping boy's father.

[no word bank]

Who is Sir Humphrey Marlow?

500

Before asking to be granted the privilege to sit in the presence of the king, Miles Hendon compared this "privilege" to the royal boon of which lord?

Who is De Courcy?

500

T/F: Tom outlived Edward.

[no word bank]

What is true?

500

The new first name Tom's father gave Edward, thinking it was Tom.

[no word bank]

What is Jack?