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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where has Tom's cousin Mary been for the last week?
(a) at an art school
(b) in the country
(c) visiting her grandmother
(d) at a Bible school

2. Where does Aunt Polly find Tom?
(a) beneath the covers
(b) in a closet
(c) behind a tree
(d) in the outhouse

3. What does Tom say the sound of the wind in the trees might be?
(a) scavengers coming for the corpses
(b) spirits of the dead
(c) devils coming to get their own
(d) witches' familiars gathering

4. What happens to the boys' raft?
(a) They dock it on the island.
(b) The current takes it away.
(c) It sinks during the night.
(d) They shove it out into the river.

5. Who wins the battle?
(a) Tom's army wins
(b) Sid's army wins
(c) Ben's army wins
(d) Joe's army wins

6. What are the men at the graveyard for?
(a) to steal a tombstone
(b) to bury treasure
(c) to bury a body
(d) to rob a grave

7. What is the object of the game?
(a) to keep the tick moving
(b) to move the tick to the other side
(c) to keep the tick on the player's side
(d) to move the tick in a perfect circle

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

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

10. Who comes to visit the Sunday School class?
(a) Parson Bridges
(b) Mayor Ellway
(c) Judge Thatcher
(d) Sherriff Johson

11. How many tickets are needed to earn a prize?
(a) ten yellow tickets
(b) fifty green tickets
(c) twenty red tickets
(d) five blue tickets

12. What do the townspeople use to try to make the boys' bodies come to the surface?
(a) firecrackers
(b) rifles
(c) a cannon
(d) dynamite

13. What does Muff leave behind?
(a) the murder weapon
(b) his jacket
(c) a cigarette butt
(d) his shoe

14. What does Tom do when he plays hooky?
(a) He plays baseball.
(b) He plays catch.
(c) He goes swimming.
(d) He reads a book.

15. Where has Tom heard of the ailment he fakes?
(a) from a friend at school
(b) from a teacher
(c) from a doctor
(d) in a book

Short Answer Questions

1. Who breaks the rules of the game?

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

3. What do the boys use to prick their fingers?

4. What person does Tom make up to threaten the stranger with?

5. What does Huck teach the other boys?

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