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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tom write the pact between the boys on?
(a) a piece of his shirt
(b) a pine shingle
(c) a flat rock
(d) a gum wrapper

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

3. What do the townspeople use to try to make the boys' bodies come to the surface?
(a) dynamite
(b) rifles
(c) firecrackers
(d) a cannon

4. What does Becky wish she had?
(a) poison to commit suicide with
(b) a raft to run away down the river
(c) the brass knob Tom tried to give her
(d) a lock of Tom's hair for a necklace

5. What does Huck tell Tom is bound to happen if the doctor is dead?
(a) The doctor's ghost will come back to haunt Joe.
(b) Someone will be hanged.
(c) Spirits will be blamed.
(d) Someone will be thown in prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom do with the tonic?

2. What does the new girl throw to Tom?

3. What are the men at the graveyard for?

4. How is Aunt Polly related to Tom?

5. What happens to the boys' raft?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what Tom draws on his slate for Becky.

2. What is Aunt Polly's reaction to Tom's disappearance?

3. Why does Tom confess that he stopped to talk with Huckleberry Finn on the way to school?

4. What do the boys do after witnessing the murder?

5. How does Tom trick other boys into doing his work for him?

6. Describe Amy Lawrence's reactions during Sunday School.

7. Where do Tom and Huck agree to meet next?

8. Describe the graveyard.

9. What does Huck caution Tom about when speaking of the dead?

10. How does Tom get shooed away from Jeff Thatcher's house?

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