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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 Tom decide to run away to become?
(a) a pirate
(b) an actor
(c) an acrobat
(d) a statesman

2. What task does Polly give Tom as punishment?
(a) carrying water buckets
(b) whitewashing the fence
(c) digging trenches in the garden
(d) mopping the floor

3. Where does Tom sneak off to during the night on the island?
(a) the town hall
(b) the schoolhouse
(c) Joe's house
(d) Aunt Polly's house

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

5. Who do Tom and Huck think Muff Potter, Injun Joe, and Doctor Robinson are when they first approach?
(a) ghosts
(b) devils
(c) animals
(d) witches

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the men at the graveyard for?

2. What do Joe and Tom feel guilty about?

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

4. What does Muff leave behind?

5. What do Tom and Huck take as an omen that they will die?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Amy Lawrence's reactions during Sunday School.

2. What does Huck caution Tom about when speaking of the dead?

3. What do Tom and Huck do with their pact after they sign it?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What about Tom's behavior at school strikes Sid as strange?

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

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