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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the boy Becky spent time with do to Tom when he finds out he's been used?
(a) He tears up Tom's math book.
(b) He stops Tom on the street and fights him.
(c) He pours ink on Tom's spelling book.
(d) He sneaks into Tom's house and breaks dishes.

2. What prevented Injun Joe's capture at the Widow Douglas' house?
(a) The Welshman couldn't help sneezing.
(b) One of the boys tripped over a branch.
(c) Injun Joe saw the approaching men reflected in the widow's windows.
(d) A bird took flight at the Welshman's approach.

3. What is the title of the first-prize composition?
(a) A Vision
(b) The Advantages of Culture
(c) Is this, then, Life?
(d) A Missouri Maiden's Farewell to Alabama

4. What does Widow Douglas say she will do for Huck?
(a) buy him a house, new clothes, and furniture
(b) put him in her will
(c) take care of him and give him money to start in business
(d) get him a fishing boat and equipment to become a fisherman

5. What does Tom and Huck's treasure lead local men to do?
(a) dig up under every local tree
(b) tear up haunted houses
(c) dig up every haunt of Injun Joe's
(d) dig out the whole cave

6. What food do Tom and Becky have left from the picnic?
(a) chocolate
(b) nothing
(c) cake
(d) bread

7. What does Tom say that he dreamed?
(a) the scene of him appearing in the church at his funeral
(b) the scene he witnessed when he sneaked over to the house
(c) witnessing the doctor's death at the graveyard
(d) the townspeople on the ferry searching for the boys' bodies

8. What is found by Injun Joe's body?
(a) a gold coin with a word etched into it
(b) a knife with a broken blade
(c) a piece of yellow paper with strange markings
(d) a stick warn down and broken

9. Where had Joe gotten water?
(a) from digging into the water table from the river
(b) seeping in from outside the door
(c) from a dripping stalactite
(d) from a spring in the ground

10. During the trial, what does the defense attorney ask the witness who saw Muff Potter washing at a creek?
(a) whether he wears glasses
(b) nothing
(c) how he could recognize Muff from so far away
(d) how he could recognize Muff in the dark

11. What speech does Tom make on examination day?
(a) Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
(b) Washington's Farewell Address
(c) the Sermon on the Mount
(d) the Gettysburg Address

12. Why do Tom and Huck think it's useless to break Muff out of prison?
(a) They think Muff would refuse to leave.
(b) They think Injun Joe would kill Muff if he escaped.
(c) They think they'd be caught and tried as accessories.
(d) They think he'll just be caught again.

13. What does Becky do that she thinks will get her in trouble?
(a) She writes on her desk and then finds that it won't come off.
(b) She breaks the lock on the teacher's desk.
(c) She accidentally tears a page of the teacher's book.
(d) She throws a stone at Tom, and it goes through the schoolroom window.

14. Who takes care of Huck when he's ill?
(a) Aunt Polly
(b) Widow Douglas
(c) Huck's father
(d) the Welshman

15. What disconcerts Becky when Tom shouts to the other picnickers?
(a) the sound of bats flying off
(b) the sound of the echo
(c) the lack of response
(d) how high Tom's voice is

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom fear whenever someone gossips to him about the murder?

2. When Tom awakens the next morning, what does he think of his and Huck's adventure in the haunted house?

3. What does Tom dump onto the table?

4. What dampens Tom's expectations of a night at Widow Douglas'?

5. Why does Tom not want to go back through the caves the way he and Becky came?

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