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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tom say will happen if the boys break their pact?
(a) They will go to Hell.
(b) They will suffer an agonizing illness.
(c) They will drop down dead.
(d) They will never be friends again.

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

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

4. What can the children get with their Sunday School tickets?
(a) a Sunday hat
(b) a shiny cross
(c) new Sunday clothes
(d) a new Bible

5. What does Huck tell Tom is bound to happen if the doctor is dead?
(a) Someone will be hanged.
(b) Someone will be thown in prison.
(c) The doctor's ghost will come back to haunt Joe.
(d) Spirits will be blamed.

6. What tonic does Aunt Polly give Tom to bring him out of his depressed mood?
(a) Reviving oil
(b) Cure-all elixir
(c) Pain-killer
(d) Alls-well

7. What do the boys use to prick their fingers?
(a) the tip of a pen
(b) a brass pin
(c) a pine needle
(d) Tom's needle

8. What do the boys expect to happen when Injun Joe lies about the murder?
(a) They expect Potter to remember what happened.
(b) They expect the sheriff to realize Joe is lying.
(c) They expect lightning to strike him down.
(d) They expect Joe to break down and confess.

9. Does Tom leave Aunt Polly his note?
(a) No, he changes his mind at the last minute.
(b) No, he never planned to give Polly a note.
(c) Yes, he leaves the note on her bed.
(d) Yes, he leaves the note by the bedside, but the wind blows it away.

10. What does Tom do with the tonic?
(a) He pours it into Sid's matress.
(b) He pours it in a crack in the floor.
(c) He pours it out the window onto the flowers.
(d) He pours it into the kitchen sink.

11. What is Ben Rogers doing when he comes across Tom?
(a) pretending to be a monkey
(b) mimicking a schoolteacher
(c) imagining he's an airplane
(d) impersonating a steamboat

12. What does Polly give Tom as reward for finishing his chore?
(a) an apple
(b) a cookie
(c) a piece of pie
(d) an orange

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

14. What does Ben trade to Tom?
(a) a pear
(b) an apple
(c) an orange
(d) a peach

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Huck sign his name?

2. What do Tom and Huck take as an omen that they will die?

3. What does Potter say when he's caught?

4. Why doesn't Huck want to tell what the boys saw?

5. Where does Becky meet Tom at lunchtime?

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