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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What task does Polly give Tom as punishment?
(a) mopping the floor
(b) whitewashing the fence
(c) carrying water buckets
(d) digging trenches in the garden

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

4. What does Tom take out of his pocket during church?
(a) a spider
(b) a grasshopper
(c) a beetle
(d) a ladybug

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

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

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

8. Who is Jim?
(a) Tom's friend from school
(b) a black boy who works at the house
(c) a runaway who lives in the woods
(d) Tom's half-brother

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

10. How does news of the murder travel through the town?
(a) by telegraph
(b) by the newspaper
(c) by word of mouth
(d) by the mayor's announcement

11. What happens to the doctor?
(a) Muff knocks him on the head.
(b) Injun Joe stabs him.
(c) Injun Joe shoots him.
(d) Muff strangles him.

12. Who does Tom meet on his way to school?
(a) Joe Harper
(b) Amy Lawrence
(c) Jeff Thatcher
(d) Huckleberry Finn

13. What kind of craft do the townspeople take onto the river to look for the boys?
(a) a rowboat
(b) a ferryboat
(c) a sloop
(d) a barge

14. Who has earned the most rewards in Tom's Sunday School?
(a) Mary
(b) Jeff Thatcher
(c) a German boy
(d) Ben Rodgers

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What tonic does Aunt Polly give Tom to bring him out of his depressed mood?

2. How long does it take the boys to get to the cemetery?

3. What do the boys expect to happen when Injun Joe lies about the murder?

4. What animal gets into a conflict with the bug Tom has brought into church?

5. What does Tom answer when the judge asks him who the first two apostles were?

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