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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Tom say they need to stop and wait by the water?
(a) He's afraid of getting even more lost.
(b) They've nearly run out of candles.
(c) There's only one source of water in the cave.
(d) No one will find them if they keep moving around.

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

3. What is the title of the first-prize composition?
(a) The Advantages of Culture
(b) A Missouri Maiden's Farewell to Alabama
(c) Is this, then, Life?
(d) A Vision

4. Who takes care of Huck when he's ill?
(a) Widow Douglas
(b) Huck's father
(c) Aunt Polly
(d) the Welshman

5. What does Polly say that Tom should have done?
(a) come to let her know he was alive
(b) stayed away longer
(c) waited until after the funeral to reveal himself
(d) come back home sooner

6. What does Tom say that robbers bury under a tree with their treasure?
(a) a cursed cross
(b) a box of toadstools
(c) a witch's finger
(d) a dead man

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

8. Why do Tom and Huck think it's useless to break Muff out of prison?
(a) They think Injun Joe would kill Muff if he escaped.
(b) They think he'll just be caught again.
(c) They think they'd be caught and tried as accessories.
(d) They think Muff would refuse to leave.

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

10. How does Polly learn that Tom was lying about his dream?
(a) Joe tells Polly the truth.
(b) Joe's mother tells Polly the truth.
(c) Sid finds out what happened and tells on Tom.
(d) Huck tells Polly the truth.

11. What prevented Injun Joe from taking off on Friday?
(a) Injun Joe needs a map of the river before he can leave.
(b) Tom and Huck playing in view of the haunted house.
(c) The sheriff still searching for Injun Joe for murder.
(d) Injun Joe needs extra cash before he can leave.

12. What do Tom and Huck do instead of going to the haunted house?
(a) make their own treasure maps
(b) play Robin Hood
(c) slingshot target practice
(d) fish in the river

13. What does Widow Douglas say she will do for Huck?
(a) take care of him and give him money to start in business
(b) put him in her will
(c) get him a fishing boat and equipment to become a fisherman
(d) buy him a house, new clothes, and furniture

14. What color lights are seen in the haunted house, reportedly?
(a) red
(b) yellow
(c) blue
(d) green

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the schoolmaster's unfulfilled goal?

3. What does Tom see that shows him the way out of the cave?

4. What is Huck's attitude toward marriage?

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

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