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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. How does Judge Frazer let Tom down?
(a) He leaves the town without giving word.
(b) He dies, just when Tom thought he was getting well.
(c) He gets sick and so will miss Fourth of July.
(d) He dies before telling Tom the secret Tom's waiting for.

2. What food do Tom and Becky have left from the picnic?
(a) bread
(b) chocolate
(c) cake
(d) nothing

3. What does Becky do that she thinks will get her in trouble?
(a) She writes on her desk and then finds that it won't come off.
(b) She accidentally tears a page of the teacher's book.
(c) She breaks the lock on the teacher's desk.
(d) She throws a stone at Tom, and it goes through the schoolroom window.

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

5. What is found by Injun Joe's body?
(a) a gold coin with a word etched into it
(b) a knife with a broken blade
(c) a piece of yellow paper with strange markings
(d) a stick warn down and broken

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Tom blow out Becky's candle?

2. What day of the week is a bad day to visit a haunted house?

3. What does Tom and Huck's treasure lead local men to do?

4. What is Judge Thatcher's feeling toward Tom?

5. What does the boy Becky spent time with do to Tom when he finds out he's been used?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what happens the first time Becky goes to sleep in the cave.

2. Where does Tom think he's found No. 2?

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

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

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

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

7. What is Tom's approach to finding buried treasure?

8. What is the town's reaction after the murder trial?

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

10. What happens to Tom and Huck's treasure?

(see the answer keys)

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