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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. How does Tom feel when he gets to school?
(a) angry
(b) goofy
(c) sad
(d) happy

2. What does Tom answer when the judge asks him who the first two apostles were?
(a) Peter and Paul
(b) Abraham and Isaac
(c) Mary and Joseph
(d) David and Goliath

3. What can the children get with their Sunday School tickets?
(a) a new Bible
(b) new Sunday clothes
(c) a Sunday hat
(d) a shiny cross

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

5. What happens to the doctor?
(a) Injun Joe stabs him.
(b) Muff strangles him.
(c) Muff knocks him on the head.
(d) Injun Joe shoots him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom decide to run away to become?

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

3. What does Tom say is wrong with him?

4. What does Polly give Tom as reward for finishing his chore?

5. How does Huck sign his name?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what Tom hears while he waits for Huck.

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

3. What does Tom tutor Becky in when they meet surreptitiously during lunch?

4. How does Tom trick Aunt Polly so that he can escape?

5. Describe the graveyard.

6. What are the boys' reactions to realizing that the townspeople think they're dead?

7. Describe the reaction to the Sunday School visitors.

8. What is Tom dissatisfied with by the end of the Sunday service?

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

10. When Tom talks and is restless in his sleep, how is his behavior explained?

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