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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 Tom and Huck take as an omen that they will die?

2. What does Tom do to stop himself from talking in his sleep?

3. What happens to the boys' raft?

4. What does Muff leave behind?

5. How many tickets are needed to earn a prize?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what Tom draws on his slate for Becky.

2. How does Tom trick other boys into doing his work for him?

3. Why does Tom realize that Muff Potter cannot tell the true story?

4. What does Huck caution Tom about when speaking of the dead?

5. Describe the reaction to the Sunday School visitors.

6. What does Tom make Becky whisper in his ear?

7. What grievance does Injun Joe have against the doctor?

8. How are Sid and Tom different?

9. What are the boys' reactions to realizing that the townspeople think they're dead?

10. What about Tom's behavior at school strikes Sid as strange?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss religion in the novel.

1) Is Tom religious? Discuss his reactions to Sunday school, his behavior in church, his beliefs in superstition, and his beliefs about the afterlife.

2) What role does religion play in Tom's family? What purposes does the Sunday-morning family ritual serve?

3) Do the community's religious leaders influence thought in the community? How?

Essay Topic 2

Injun Joe is motivated to murder out of revenge. Discuss Injun Joe's desire for revenge.

1) What has happened to Injun Joe that caused him to seek revenge? Why have these events happened to Injun Joe?

2) What characteristics of Injun Joe's personality lead to him seeking revenge? To what extent is Joe's desire for revenge fueled by his personality, and to what extent is it fueled by how others have treated him?

3) Widow Douglas says of Huck that God's hand is seen in every creature he makes. Is this true of Injun Joe as well?

Essay Topic 3

Huck Finn feels constrained by the Widow Douglas, just as Tom feels constrained by his Sunday shoes. Discuss freedom in the novel, and how freedom conflicts with civilization.

1) What does Huck Finn find constricting about civilization?

2) The boys admire and emulate outlaws. Why do they admire fictional outlaws? How do they feel about the real outlaws in the novel?

3) Tom Sawyer admires Huck for his free lifestyle, and yet at the end of the novel, he convinces Huck to stay with the Widow Douglas. Why does he do this?

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