View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the trial, what does the defense attorney ask the witness who saw Muff Potter washing at a creek?
(a) whether he wears glasses
(b) how he could recognize Muff in the dark
(c) nothing
(d) how he could recognize Muff from so far away

2. How did the boys get to shore from their island?
(a) They swam against the current.
(b) They made a raft.
(c) They paddled using a log.
(d) They stole a skiff.

3. How does Polly learn that Tom was lying about his dream?
(a) Joe's mother tells Polly the truth.
(b) Huck tells Polly the truth.
(c) Sid finds out what happened and tells on Tom.
(d) Joe tells Polly the truth.

4. Why does Tom not want to go back through the caves the way he and Becky came?
(a) He thinks he can't fit back through an entryway they came through.
(b) He wants to stay out longer with Becky.
(c) He's afraid bats will put out their candles.
(d) He thinks there are ghosts in one of the cave's rooms.

5. What is Judge Thatcher's feeling toward Tom?
(a) admiration
(b) anger
(c) jealousy
(d) annoyance

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is the schoolmaster's bald head, when the pranksters cause a cat to snatch his wig away?

2. How does Judge Frazer let Tom down?

3. What prevented Injun Joe's capture at the Widow Douglas' house?

4. What is in the first closet Huck and Tom search in the haunted house?

5. What had Joe found in the cave to eat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens at the Fourth of July celebration?

2. How does Tom feel when Injun Joe is found dead?

3. How does Becky react when she first realizes she and Tom are lost?

4. What is kept in the mysterious room at the tavern?

5. Does the Welshman take credit for saving Widow Douglas?

6. How does Mrs. Thatcher react as Tuesday comes and Becky is still missing?

7. What evidence of Becky and Tom do the searchers find in the cave?

8. Where does Tom think he's found No. 2?

9. What good deed does Tom do for Becky?

10. Describe what happens the first time Becky goes to sleep in the cave.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 735 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample