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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 Aunt Polly's reaction to Tom's professed illness?
(a) She spanks him.
(b) She scolds him for lying.
(c) She takes him to the doctor.
(d) She laughs.

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

3. What does Tom give to Becky?
(a) an orange
(b) a peach
(c) an apple
(d) a pear

4. What does Tom try to do during the sermon?
(a) catch a fly
(b) steal a hymnal
(c) pry up a floorboard
(d) sneak off his shoes

5. What does Tom ask Becky?
(a) to meet him on the weekend
(b) to go steady
(c) to run away with him
(d) to be engaged

Short Answer Questions

1. What tonic does Aunt Polly give Tom to bring him out of his depressed mood?

2. What person does Tom make up to threaten the stranger with?

3. What do the boys expect to happen when Injun Joe lies about the murder?

4. What does Tom say will happen if the boys break their pact?

5. What do the boys play after the storm?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Sid and Tom different?

2. Describe some of the ways Tom and Huck discuss to remove warts.

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

4. What has Mary earned in Sunday School, and what did she have to do to earn it?

5. Why does Tom confess that he stopped to talk with Huckleberry Finn on the way to school?

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

7. What is Tom and Joe's plan to run away?

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

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

10. How does Tom find his lost marble?

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