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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. Why does Tom blow out Becky's candle?
(a) to save their candles for the future
(b) to scare Becky with the darkness
(c) to stop Becky from starting a fire
(d) on accident, while he is blowing a bug away

2. What day of the week is a bad day to visit a haunted house?
(a) Saturday
(b) Wednesday
(c) Sunday
(d) Friday

3. What does Polly say that Tom should have done?
(a) come to let her know he was alive
(b) stayed away longer
(c) waited until after the funeral to reveal himself
(d) come back home sooner

4. What does Tom threaten to do if Huck runs away from the Widow Douglas?
(a) not allow Huck to be in his gang
(b) tell where Huck's hideout is
(c) put a hex on Huck
(d) confiscate Huck's half of the treasure

5. What dampens Tom's expectations of a night at Widow Douglas'?
(a) He is afraid Injun Joe might find him.
(b) He thinks Becky might disapprove of him.
(c) He expects his aunt will find out where he's been.
(d) He thinks Huck might give him the signal that night.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who takes care of Huck when he's ill?

2. What does Tom find in No. 2?

3. What does Tom say that he dreamed?

4. What is the cave opening shaped like?

5. What reason does Tom give for not letting Polly know he was alive?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Tom's prior experience with the boy he saw Becky with?

2. Describe the Spaniard.

3. Why does Injun Joe want to harm the Widow Douglas?

4. What evidence of Becky and Tom do the searchers find in the cave?

5. What good deed does Tom do for Becky?

6. Does the Welshman take credit for saving Widow Douglas?

7. How does Mrs. Thatcher react as Tuesday comes and Becky is still missing?

8. What happens during Tom's speech on examination day?

9. How does Becky react when she first realizes she and Tom are lost?

10. What happens at the Fourth of July celebration?

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