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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. What is found by Injun Joe's body?

2. What do Tom and Huck do instead of going to the haunted house?

3. When Tom awakens the next morning, what does he think of his and Huck's adventure in the haunted house?

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

5. What food do Tom and Becky have left from the picnic?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens at the Fourth of July celebration?

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

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

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

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

6. What good deed does Tom do for Becky?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss love and jealousy in the novel by examining the relationship between Becky and Tom.

1) Is Tom really in love with Becky? Is his love for Becky different from his "love" for Amy Lawrence, whom he so easily dismisses? How is his love of Becky different from his love for Aunt Polly?

2) Describe Becky's feelings for Tom. What attracts Becky to Tom? How deep are her emotions for him? How does the experience in the caves change their relationship?

3) How do the characters experience and use jealousy in their relationship?

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

Discuss the structure of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

1) In what ways is the structure of the novel episodic? What does the episodic nature of the novel add to its story?

2) What things does the author keep from the reader to build suspense? How does the author use surprise?

3) How does the structure of the novel follow the stages of Tom's development?

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