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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the schoolmaster do after learning of the news?
(a) He holds a school assembly.
(b) He gives the classes a ten minute mourning period.
(c) He closes the school for the day.
(d) He leaves school but makes the teachers continue working.

2. What role do Tom and Joe Harper take in the battle?
(a) general and lieutenant
(b) allied generals
(c) opposing generals
(d) general and president

3. What does Sid do that Tom gets blamed for?
(a) Sid eats all the dessert.
(b) Sid breaks the sugar bowl.
(c) Sid hides the napkins.
(d) Sid lets the cat out.

4. What serves as a field for their tick game?
(a) Joe's shoe
(b) Joe's slate
(c) Tom's sleeve
(d) Tom's desk

5. What happens to the doctor?
(a) Injun Joe stabs him.
(b) Muff knocks him on the head.
(c) Injun Joe shoots him.
(d) Muff strangles him.

6. Why doesn't Huck want to tell what the boys saw?
(a) He's afraid he'll be arrested.
(b) He doesn't want to have to testify in court.
(c) He's afraid no one will believe them.
(d) He's afraid Injun Joe might kill them.

7. What do Tom and Joe use to play with the tick?
(a) paper balls
(b) pins
(c) pencils
(d) feathers

8. Where is the graveyard located?
(a) on a hill
(b) in a valley
(c) behind the church
(d) in a swamp

9. What does the preacher do at the funeral service?
(a) laughs
(b) faints
(c) gets angry
(d) cries

10. What wakes Tom?
(a) a cat yowling
(b) Sid shaking him
(c) a bottle breaking
(d) the clock striking eleven

11. What does the stranger do through the window while Tom stands outside his house?
(a) clenches his fist
(b) throws rocks
(c) yells at Tom
(d) makes faces

12. How is Aunt Polly related to Tom?
(a) Tom is Polly's sister's son.
(b) Tom is Polly's husband's brother's son.
(c) Tom is Polly's brother's son.
(d) Tom is Polly's husband's sister's son.

13. What kind of craft do the townspeople take onto the river to look for the boys?
(a) a sloop
(b) a rowboat
(c) a ferryboat
(d) a barge

14. What do the boys eat for breakfast after running away?
(a) cheese and stolen eggs
(b) apples and bread
(c) bacon and fish
(d) dry crackers

15. What is Tom's reaction to his bath?
(a) Tom procrastinates in the bath, playing sailor.
(b) Tom hates taking a bath and tries to only pretend to take one.
(c) Tom sings loudly and out of key in the bath.
(d) Tom goes to sleep in the bath because he's bored.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the town gather?

2. What does Aunt Polly do to Tom for going out at night?

3. What task does Polly give Tom as punishment?

4. Where does Aunt Polly find Tom?

5. Where has Tom's cousin Mary been for the last week?

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