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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. By Monday morning, what do the men searching the cave send word to town for?
(a) shovels and picks
(b) water and rope
(c) horses and blankets
(d) candles and food

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

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

4. What does Tom threaten to do if Huck runs away from the Widow Douglas?
(a) not allow Huck to be in his gang
(b) put a hex on Huck
(c) confiscate Huck's half of the treasure
(d) tell where Huck's hideout is

5. What does Becky do that she thinks will get her in trouble?
(a) She writes on her desk and then finds that it won't come off.
(b) She accidentally tears a page of the teacher's book.
(c) She throws a stone at Tom, and it goes through the schoolroom window.
(d) She breaks the lock on the teacher's desk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What day of the week is a bad day to visit a haunted house?

2. What does Huck decide to do when the men come out of No. 2?

3. During the trial, what does the defense attorney ask the witness who saw Muff Potter washing at a creek?

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

5. What do Tom and Huck do instead of going to the haunted house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the town's reaction after the murder trial?

2. What good deed does Tom do for Becky?

3. Does the Welshman take credit for saving Widow Douglas?

4. Describe Huck's reaction to living with the Widow Douglas.

5. How does Becky react when she first realizes she and Tom are lost?

6. What happens during Tom's speech on examination day?

7. Describe what happens in the courtroom during Tom's testimony.

8. Why does Injun Joe want to harm the Widow Douglas?

9. What does Tom think when he's whipped for ruining his schoolbook?

10. What happens at the Fourth of July celebration?

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