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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Tom say the Widow Douglas has for children?
(a) soda
(b) ice cream
(c) pie
(d) candy

3. 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 accidentally tears a page of the teacher's book.
(c) She breaks the lock on the teacher's desk.
(d) She throws a stone at Tom, and it goes through the schoolroom window.

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

5. What color is the schoolmaster's bald head, when the pranksters cause a cat to snatch his wig away?
(a) gold
(b) blue
(c) black
(d) red

6. What illness does Tom contract during vacation?
(a) mumps
(b) whooping cough
(c) chicken pox
(d) measles

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

8. How did the boys get to shore from their island?
(a) They stole a skiff.
(b) They made a raft.
(c) They swam against the current.
(d) They paddled using a log.

9. What does Huck say he'd do with treasure?
(a) run away to Europe
(b) give it to his father
(c) buy pie and soda every day
(d) save it to live on

10. Where does Joe tell his partner he plans on running after the "dangerous" job?
(a) Texas
(b) Oklahoma
(c) Arkansas
(d) Alabama

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

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

13. What had Joe found in the cave to eat?
(a) mushrooms and snails
(b) beetles and rats
(c) soapstone and snakes
(d) bats and candle wax

14. What is Huck's attitude toward marriage?
(a) He thinks marriage is always unhappy and ends in fighting.
(b) He dreams of getting married to the right girl.
(c) He is afraid of marriage because his wife could die.
(d) He thinks marriage to anyone would be grand.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Tom give Becky for his shout, when he sees Injun Joe?

2. How does Becky make Tom jealous?

3. Who tells Tom that the Welshman is going to announce Huck's role in saving the Widow Douglas?

4. What does Tom threaten to do if Huck runs away from the Widow Douglas?

5. How does Tom react to Becky when he goes back to school?

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