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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. When Tom awakens the next morning, what does he think of his and Huck's adventure in the haunted house?
(a) He has thought of a scheme to get the treasure.
(b) He's decided to give up on the treasure.
(c) He's afraid it's a dream.
(d) He's thought of a scheme to capture Injun Joe.

2. What does Tom fear whenever someone gossips to him about the murder?
(a) He fears Muff Potter will not be convicted.
(b) He fears the person is hinting Tom knows something.
(c) He fears the doctor's ghost will rise up.
(d) He fears he will be accused of the murder.

3. What color is the schoolmaster's bald head, when the pranksters cause a cat to snatch his wig away?
(a) blue
(b) gold
(c) red
(d) black

4. What do Tom and Huck do instead of going to the haunted house?
(a) make their own treasure maps
(b) play Robin Hood
(c) fish in the river
(d) slingshot target practice

5. What had Joe found in the cave to eat?
(a) bats and candle wax
(b) beetles and rats
(c) mushrooms and snails
(d) soapstone and snakes

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Aunt Polly able to forgive Tom anything?

2. What does Tom threaten to do if Huck runs away from the Widow Douglas?

3. Why does Tom not want to go back through the caves the way he and Becky came?

4. What does Huck say he'd do with treasure?

5. Where had Joe gotten water?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Tom treat Amy Lawrence when he comes back to school?

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

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

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

6. What is kept in the mysterious room at the tavern?

7. Describe what happens in the courtroom during Tom's testimony.

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

9. Describe Huck's reaction to living with the Widow Douglas.

10. Describe the Spaniard.

(see the answer keys)

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