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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What wakes Tom the next morning?
(a) Mary shakes Tom awake.
(b) Aunt Polly yells at Tom to wake him.
(c) Sid pours water on Tom.
(d) Tom wakes on his own.

2. What does Aunt Polly do to Tom for going out at night?
(a) She spanks him until he cries.
(b) She yells at him and kicks him out of the house.
(c) She weeps over him and tells him to go ahead and break her heart.
(d) She pretends she doesn't know what happened.

3. What do Tom and Joe use to play with the tick?
(a) pencils
(b) paper balls
(c) pins
(d) feathers

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Muff leave behind?

2. Why are the Sunday School students given colored tickets?

3. What does Huck tell Tom is bound to happen if the doctor is dead?

4. What does Tom "die" of during the game?

5. Where is Potter caught?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the minister say about the boys at the funeral?

2. What is Tom dissatisfied with by the end of the Sunday service?

3. Describe the graveyard.

4. When Tom talks and is restless in his sleep, how is his behavior explained?

5. How does Tom trick Aunt Polly so that he can escape?

6. Why does Tom realize that Muff Potter cannot tell the true story?

7. What is Aunt Polly's reaction to Tom's disappearance?

8. How does Tom trick other boys into doing his work for him?

9. Describe what Tom draws on his slate for Becky.

10. Describe Polly's reaction when Tom says he's done with the whitewashing.

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