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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14 and 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What person does Tom make up to threaten the stranger with?
(a) a friend who is a schoolmaster
(b) a big sister
(c) a big brother
(d) a powerful father

2. Why does Becky miss school?
(a) She begins taking lessons at home.
(b) She is visiting relatives.
(c) She is ill.
(d) She goes on a trip abroad.

3. What does Tom decide to run away to become?
(a) an acrobat
(b) a pirate
(c) an actor
(d) a statesman

4. What witness comes forward against Muff Potter?
(a) A man who saw Potter meeting secretively with the doctor.
(b) A man who heard Potter threaten the doctor.
(c) A man who saw Potter washing in a stream in the early hours.
(d) A man who identified Potter as buying the murder weapon.

5. Who do the boys find sleeping in their hideout?
(a) Joe Harper
(b) Injun Joe
(c) Muff Potter
(d) Jeff Thatcher

Short Answer Questions

1. What noise does Tom make out the window, before climbing down?

2. What does the stranger do through the window while Tom stands outside his house?

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

4. Does Tom leave Aunt Polly his note?

5. Who is Amy Lawrence?

(see the answer key)

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