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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What serves as a field for their tick game?
(a) Tom's desk
(b) Joe's shoe
(c) Joe's slate
(d) Tom's sleeve

2. What is the potential consequence Tom heard that the illness could have?
(a) being paralyzed
(b) falling into a coma
(c) needing an operation
(d) losing a finger

3. What do Tom and Huck take as an omen that they will die?
(a) an owl's cry
(b) a stray dog howling
(c) a black cat yowling
(d) a fox eating a rat

4. What does Tom offer Becky to console her?
(a) a brass knob
(b) a silver teacup
(c) a ribbon
(d) a flower

5. Who breaks the rules of the game?
(a) Tom, by playing with the tick during Joe's turn
(b) Joe, by dropping the tick on the floor
(c) Tom, by letting the tick out the window
(d) Joe, by smashing the tick

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Amy Lawrence?

2. What does Tom imagine after his aunt hits him and does not apologize?

3. What does Tom take out of his pocket during church?

4. What is the object of the game?

5. What does Tom "die" of during the game?

(see the answer key)

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