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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Becky make Tom jealous?
(a) by talking with Bill Miller
(b) by kissing Joe Harper
(c) by sitting and reading with Alfred Temple
(d) by sitting next to Ben Rodgers

2. What speech does Tom make on examination day?
(a) Washington's Farewell Address
(b) the Gettysburg Address
(c) Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
(d) the Sermon on the Mount

3. What illness does Tom contract during vacation?
(a) measles
(b) whooping cough
(c) chicken pox
(d) mumps

4. What disconcerts Becky when Tom shouts to the other picnickers?
(a) the sound of the echo
(b) the lack of response
(c) how high Tom's voice is
(d) the sound of bats flying off

5. What does the Welshman find where the two criminals were standing outside Widow Douglas' house?
(a) a heavy club
(b) burglar's tools
(c) a gold coin
(d) Injun Joe's eye patch

6. Why does Tom blow out Becky's candle?
(a) to scare Becky with the darkness
(b) to stop Becky from starting a fire
(c) on accident, while he is blowing a bug away
(d) to save their candles for the future

7. What does the boy Becky spent time with do to Tom when he finds out he's been used?
(a) He pours ink on Tom's spelling book.
(b) He sneaks into Tom's house and breaks dishes.
(c) He tears up Tom's math book.
(d) He stops Tom on the street and fights him.

8. What happens to Injun Joe's accomplice?
(a) He is found stabbed to death in the haunted house.
(b) He is captured but hangs himself in the jail.
(c) He is found with his neck broken outside of town.
(d) His body is found in the river, likely drowned.

9. What is Muff Potter's reaction when Tom is called as a witness?
(a) sorrow
(b) anger
(c) terror
(d) surprise

10. Where does Joe tell his partner he plans on running after the "dangerous" job?
(a) Oklahoma
(b) Arkansas
(c) Alabama
(d) Texas

11. What had Joe found in the cave to eat?
(a) soapstone and snakes
(b) bats and candle wax
(c) beetles and rats
(d) mushrooms and snails

12. What does Tom dump onto the table?
(a) gold coins
(b) gold ore
(c) packs of money
(d) diamonds

13. What is Tom's attitude when he first takes the stand?
(a) angry
(b) sullen
(c) showing off
(d) frightened

14. How does Judge Frazer let Tom down?
(a) He gets sick and so will miss Fourth of July.
(b) He dies, just when Tom thought he was getting well.
(c) He dies before telling Tom the secret Tom's waiting for.
(d) He leaves the town without giving word.

15. What is found by Injun Joe's body?
(a) a knife with a broken blade
(b) a gold coin with a word etched into it
(c) a stick warn down and broken
(d) a piece of yellow paper with strange markings

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Polly say that Tom should have done?

2. Why does Tom say they need to stop and wait by the water?

3. What is in the first closet Huck and Tom search in the haunted house?

4. What does Tom say the Widow Douglas has for children?

5. What reason does Tom give Becky for his shout, when he sees Injun Joe?

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