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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the schoolmaster do after learning of the news?
(a) He gives the classes a ten minute mourning period.
(b) He leaves school but makes the teachers continue working.
(c) He closes the school for the day.
(d) He holds a school assembly.

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

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

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

5. What noise does Tom make out the window, before climbing down?
(a) a cat's meow
(b) a coyote's howl
(c) a dog's yowl
(d) a crow's caw

6. Who do Tom and Huck think Muff Potter, Injun Joe, and Doctor Robinson are when they first approach?
(a) witches
(b) devils
(c) ghosts
(d) animals

7. What does Tom try to do during the sermon?
(a) pry up a floorboard
(b) sneak off his shoes
(c) catch a fly
(d) steal a hymnal

8. How is Aunt Polly related to Tom?
(a) Tom is Polly's husband's sister's son.
(b) Tom is Polly's brother's son.
(c) Tom is Polly's sister's son.
(d) Tom is Polly's husband's brother's son.

9. What does Tom give to Becky?
(a) a peach
(b) an apple
(c) a pear
(d) an orange

10. Where does the town gather?
(a) the town square
(b) the town hall
(c) the schoolyard
(d) the graveyard

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

12. What do Tom and Huck take as an omen that they will die?
(a) an owl's cry
(b) a fox eating a rat
(c) a black cat yowling
(d) a stray dog howling

13. 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.

14. How does Tom feel when he gets to school?
(a) sad
(b) angry
(c) goofy
(d) happy

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What role do Tom and Joe Harper take in the battle?

2. What does Tom "die" of during the game?

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

4. What do the boys play after the storm?

5. What does Huck teach the other boys?

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