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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 is the potential consequence Tom heard that the illness could have?
(a) losing a finger
(b) falling into a coma
(c) being paralyzed
(d) needing an operation

2. Why does Tom decide to run away?
(a) Tom is failing in school and will be held back.
(b) Aunt Polly won't stop giving him medicines.
(c) He is afraid Huck will break their pact.
(d) Becky scorns him when she comes back to school.

3. What is Tom's recent accomplishment?
(a) learning to catch tree frogs
(b) learning to whistle
(c) learning to write in cursive
(d) learning to throw a spitball

4. How is Aunt Polly related to Tom?
(a) Tom is Polly's husband's sister's son.
(b) Tom is Polly's husband's brother's son.
(c) Tom is Polly's sister's son.
(d) Tom is Polly's brother's son.

5. What does Becky wish she had?
(a) poison to commit suicide with
(b) a raft to run away down the river
(c) a lock of Tom's hair for a necklace
(d) the brass knob Tom tried to give her

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Tom been eating that he wasn't supposed to eat?

2. Who is Jim?

3. Where does Becky meet Tom at lunchtime?

4. What does the sheriff say about catching Muff Potter?

5. How does Huck sign his name?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the analogy between Peter, the cat, and Tom.

2. What does Tom make Becky whisper in his ear?

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

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

5. Describe the reaction to the Sunday School visitors.

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

7. What do the villagers want to do to Injun Joe?

8. What does Sid do to try to hear what Tom is saying in his sleep?

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

10. How does Tom get shooed away from Jeff Thatcher's house?

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