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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the Sunday School students given colored tickets?
(a) for learning Bible verses
(b) for helping with the Sunday service
(c) for attendance
(d) for the church raffle

2. Who has earned the most rewards in Tom's Sunday School?
(a) Mary
(b) Ben Rodgers
(c) Jeff Thatcher
(d) a German boy

3. What does Tom throw at Sid as he leaves?
(a) a rock
(b) an apple core
(c) dirt clods
(d) his paintbrush

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

5. What does Tom do to try to ease his conscience?
(a) He brings gifts to Muff Potter.
(b) He denies himself the pleasure of playing hooky.
(c) He does all his chores for Aunt Polly.
(d) He studies his Bible verses for Sunday school.

6. What is Ben Rogers doing when he comes across Tom?
(a) imagining he's an airplane
(b) impersonating a steamboat
(c) mimicking a schoolteacher
(d) pretending to be a monkey

7. What kind of craft do the townspeople take onto the river to look for the boys?
(a) a sloop
(b) a rowboat
(c) a ferryboat
(d) a barge

8. What source of food do the boys find on the island?
(a) turtle eggs
(b) wild chickens
(c) a fishing pond
(d) peach trees

9. Who wins the battle?
(a) Sid's army wins
(b) Tom's army wins
(c) Ben's army wins
(d) Joe's army wins

10. Where does Tom sneak off to during the night on the island?
(a) Joe's house
(b) Aunt Polly's house
(c) the schoolhouse
(d) the town hall

11. Does Sid believe Tom is sick?
(a) No, he thinks Tom is trying to get him in trouble.
(b) No, he thinks Tom is faking to get out of school.
(c) Yes, he runs to tell Polly that Tom is dying.
(d) Yes, but he thinks Tom is exaggerating.

12. Where are the boys during their funeral?
(a) in the unused gallery
(b) behind the last row of pews
(c) in the basement store room
(d) under the altar

13. What do the boys use to prick their fingers?
(a) a pine needle
(b) the tip of a pen
(c) Tom's needle
(d) a brass pin

14. What does Tom decide to run away to become?
(a) an acrobat
(b) a statesman
(c) an actor
(d) a pirate

15. What do the boys play after the storm?
(a) Cowboys
(b) Circus
(c) Pirates
(d) Indians

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom give to Becky?

2. What role do Tom and Joe Harper take in the battle?

3. What person does Tom make up to threaten the stranger with?

4. What does Tom answer when the judge asks him who the first two apostles were?

5. Where has Tom heard of the ailment he fakes?

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