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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Tom remember to grab the towel before running?
(a) Huck would kill him for losing the towel.
(b) Sid would snitch on Tom if he came back without the towel.
(c) His aunt would kill him for losing the towel.
(d) Injun Joe could track him down with the towel.

2. What day of the week is a bad day to visit a haunted house?
(a) Saturday
(b) Wednesday
(c) Friday
(d) Sunday

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

4. Who is the first friend who agrees to go hunting for treasure with Tom?
(a) Huck Finn
(b) Joe Harper
(c) Ben Rogers
(d) Jeff Thatcher

5. 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

6. What does the Welshman find where the two criminals were standing outside Widow Douglas' house?
(a) Injun Joe's eye patch
(b) burglar's tools
(c) a gold coin
(d) a heavy club

7. 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) how he could recognize Muff in the dark
(c) how he could recognize Muff from so far away
(d) nothing

8. Why does Tom not want to go back through the caves the way he and Becky came?
(a) He wants to stay out longer with Becky.
(b) He thinks he can't fit back through an entryway they came through.
(c) He thinks there are ghosts in one of the cave's rooms.
(d) He's afraid bats will put out their candles.

9. What reason does Tom give for not letting Polly know he was alive?
(a) Tom didn't want to betray his fellow pirates, Joe and Huck.
(b) Tom thought Polly would be angry if she knew he'd been to the house.
(c) Tom didn't want to spoil the effect of appearing at the funeral.
(d) Tom didn't want Sid and Mary to find out he was alive.

10. What does Tom see that shows him the way out of the cave?
(a) a bug flying into a crack in the wall
(b) dripping water
(c) a speck of daylight
(d) a breeze blowing the candle flame

11. What is in the first closet Huck and Tom search in the haunted house?
(a) nothing
(b) a bricked up door
(c) a cat
(d) a pile of cobwebs

12. When does Mrs. Thatcher find out that Becky's not where she's supposed to be?
(a) when Mrs. Harper visits the Thatcher house
(b) in the town square Sunday morning
(c) when Becky doesn't come home from the picnic Saturday night
(d) at church Sunday morning

13. What prevented Injun Joe from taking off on Friday?
(a) Tom and Huck playing in view of the haunted house.
(b) Injun Joe needs a map of the river before he can leave.
(c) The sheriff still searching for Injun Joe for murder.
(d) Injun Joe needs extra cash before he can leave.

14. What does Tom dump onto the table?
(a) gold coins
(b) gold ore
(c) packs of money
(d) diamonds

15. What makes Aunt Polly able to forgive Tom anything?
(a) She discovers the note in his jacket, so she knows he wasn't lying.
(b) She remembers how she felt when she thought Tom was dead.
(c) Joe tells her that Tom was the one that convinced them to come back.
(d) Tom tells her that the only reason he came back was to stop her from grieving.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Tom say robbers fail to come get their treasures?

2. What does Huck decide to do when the men come out of No. 2?

3. What food do Tom and Becky have left from the picnic?

4. What is Judge Thatcher's feeling toward Tom?

5. Does Huck tell the Welshman the Spaniard's true identity?

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