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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Tom opens the apron, what does he find inside?
(a) His wife's heart and liver.
(b) A skull.
(c) Valuable silver.
(d) Gold coins.

2. Who wrote "The Devil and Tom Walker"?
(a) Geoffery Crayon.
(b) Washington Irving.
(c) Stephen Vincent Benét
(d) Nathaniel Hawthorne.

3. Which of the following does the devil say is the name he goes by in their area?
(a) The Black Woodsman.
(b) Beelzebub.
(c) The Blacksmith.
(d) Lucifer.

4. What is the weather like on Tom's last day?
(a) It is unseasonably hot.
(b) It rains nonstop.
(c) A storm is brewing.
(d) It snows in the middle of summer.

5. When the narrator says that Tom has built his house out of ostentation, what does this mean Tom's motive was?
(a) To glorify the devil.
(b) To show off.
(c) To intimidate his neighbors.
(d) To fill a necessary purpose.

6. Why is Tom's business immediately successful?
(a) There has been a series of large fires and people need to rebuild.
(b) There is a rush to buy land in the West.
(c) There has been a recent financial crisis.
(d) There has been a recent wave of immigration.

7. To whom does Tom think the forested swampland belongs?
(a) Deacon Peabody.
(b) The local Native tribe.
(c) The devil.
(d) Absalom Crowninshield

8. What makes the item on Tom's desk ironic?
(a) Tom's job.
(b) The nature of Tom's enemy.
(c) The use of the item later in the story.
(d) Tom's superstition.

9. Why does the narrator say that only Tom Walker would have the nerve to stop at the Native stronghold in the sawmp?
(a) Other townspeople have seen the devil there.
(b) The area is overrun with snakes and alligators.
(c) The area is still frequented by a hostile Native tribe.
(d) There is a rumor that the Natives worshiped the devil there.

10. What do Tom's neighbors do about the constant fighting in the Walker house?
(a) They ask Tom about it privately.
(b) They stop in to try to find out what is wrong.
(c) They call the police.
(d) They ignore it.

11. Why does Tom decide that he will not agree to the devil's bargain?
(a) Because it will please his wife if he does it.
(b) Because his wife convinces him to ask for more money.
(c) Because he does not want to risk his soul.
(d) Because he believes that the devil will try to trick him.

12. When the narrator refers to Tom's parsimony, what characteristic is being discussed?
(a) Cheapness.
(b) Evil.
(c) Hypocrisy.
(d) Trickery.

13. How does the devil say the Natives sacrificed a white man to him?
(a) They crucified him.
(b) They hung him.
(c) They chopped off his head.
(d) They roasted him.

14. Part of the story is set in a morass. What kind of location is this?
(a) A muddy or boggy area.
(b) A mountaintop.
(c) A flat area where a river enters the sea.
(d) An overgrown field.

15. Who is said to have been present when the treasure was buried?
(a) The devil.
(b) Geoffery Crayon.
(c) Tom Walker.
(d) A whaler.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Tom to start to worry about the deal he has made with the devil?

2. What is the reason the narrator gives for Tom not fearing the devil?

3. What significant event happened in Massachusetts in 1727?

4. Why does the devil stay away from Tom for a while after Tom's wife disappears?

5. What is Tom's reaction to the disappearance and likely death of his wife?

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