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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first friend who agrees to go hunting for treasure with Tom?

2. What color lights are seen in the haunted house, reportedly?

3. What is Muff Potter's reaction when Tom is called as a witness?

4. What is found by Injun Joe's body?

5. What dampens Tom's expectations of a night at Widow Douglas'?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Tom say that people often find that leads them to a buried treasure?

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

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

5. How does Tom feel when Injun Joe is found dead?

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

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

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

9. What happens at the Fourth of July celebration?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Injun Joe is motivated to murder out of revenge. Discuss Injun Joe's desire for revenge.

1) What has happened to Injun Joe that caused him to seek revenge? Why have these events happened to Injun Joe?

2) What characteristics of Injun Joe's personality lead to him seeking revenge? To what extent is Joe's desire for revenge fueled by his personality, and to what extent is it fueled by how others have treated him?

3) Widow Douglas says of Huck that God's hand is seen in every creature he makes. Is this true of Injun Joe as well?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss religion in the novel.

1) Is Tom religious? Discuss his reactions to Sunday school, his behavior in church, his beliefs in superstition, and his beliefs about the afterlife.

2) What role does religion play in Tom's family? What purposes does the Sunday-morning family ritual serve?

3) Do the community's religious leaders influence thought in the community? How?

Essay Topic 3

The force of public opinion affects events in the novel, but public opinion is changeable and fallible. Discuss public opinion in the novel.

1) How does the public's opinion of Muff Potter change over the course of the novel? How does public opinion affect events, Muff's self-image, and Tom and Huck?

2) How does public opinion of Tom change over the course of the novel? What factors effect people's opinions about Tom?

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