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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 does the schoolmaster do after learning of the news?
(a) He closes the school for the day.
(b) He holds a school assembly.
(c) He gives the classes a ten minute mourning period.
(d) He leaves school but makes the teachers continue working.

2. What does Ben trade to Tom?
(a) a pear
(b) an orange
(c) a peach
(d) an apple

3. What do the boys eat for breakfast after running away?
(a) cheese and stolen eggs
(b) bacon and fish
(c) apples and bread
(d) dry crackers

4. When Tom beats up the strange boy, what does he tell the boy to holler to make him stop?
(a) "I give!"
(b) "Uncle!"
(c) "Nuff!"
(d) "You win!"

5. What has Tom been eating that he wasn't supposed to eat?
(a) pie
(b) jam
(c) chocolate
(d) cookies

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes to visit the Sunday School class?

2. What is the potential consequence Tom heard that the illness could have?

3. Who does Tom give a dose of tonic to?

4. How is Aunt Polly related to Tom?

5. What is Tom's reaction to his bath?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do Tom and Huck agree to meet next?

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

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

4. Describe Aunt Polly's dilemma in punishing Tom.

5. What story does Huck Finn recall to cast doubt on the omen the boys see?

6. How are Sid and Tom different?

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

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

9. Describe the reaction to the Sunday School visitors.

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

(see the answer keys)

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