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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tom throw at Sid as he leaves?
(a) an apple core
(b) his paintbrush
(c) a rock
(d) dirt clods

2. What has Tom been eating that he wasn't supposed to eat?
(a) jam
(b) cookies
(c) chocolate
(d) pie

3. Who does Tom give a dose of tonic to?
(a) Sid
(b) Mary
(c) Aunt Polly
(d) the cat

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

5. Why do the boys realize they're mistaken about the omen?
(a) The animal is sitting in a patch of daisies.
(b) The animal's back is to them.
(c) The animal runs off when they approach.
(d) The animal has a white stripe.

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

7. What is Aunt Polly's reaction to Tom's professed illness?
(a) She scolds him for lying.
(b) She spanks him.
(c) She laughs.
(d) She takes him to the doctor.

8. What does Aunt Polly do about Tom's loose tooth?
(a) She pulls it out with pliers.
(b) She gives him an apple to bite into.
(c) She pulls it out with string.
(d) She gives him gum to chew.

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

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

11. At first, what does Potter think gave him away?
(a) Potter thinks his footprints were found at the graveyard.
(b) Potter thinks Injun Joe has accused him.
(c) Potter thinks the doctor has recovered and accused him.
(d) Potter thinks someone saw him running from the scene.

12. What does Tom "die" of during the game?
(a) a sword wound
(b) being stoned
(c) an arrow
(d) poison

13. What source of food do the boys find on the island?
(a) a fishing pond
(b) wild chickens
(c) peach trees
(d) turtle eggs

14. What does Tom ask Becky?
(a) to go steady
(b) to be engaged
(c) to run away with him
(d) to meet him on the weekend

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What serves as a field for their tick game?

2. Where does Tom go to be alone?

3. What does the preacher do at the funeral service?

4. What does Tom do when he plays hooky?

5. What does the sheriff say about catching Muff Potter?

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