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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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About the Novel

Introduction
Brief Synopsis
List of Characters
Character Map

Summaries and Commentaries

Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapters IV and V
Chapters VI, VII, and VIII
Chapters IX, X, XI
Chapter XII
Chapters XIII and XIV
Chapters XV and XVI
Chapters XVII and XVIII
Chapters XIX and XX
Chapter XXI
Chapter XXII
Chapters XXIII and XXIV
Chapters XXV and XXVI
Chapters XXVII and XXVIII
Chapters XXIX and XXX
Chapters XXXI and XXXII
Chapters XXXIII and XXXIV
Chapter XXXV

Character Analyses

Tom Sawyer
Injun Joe
Huck Finn
Becky Thatcher

Critical Essays

Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: A Study in Contrasts
Tom Sawyer: The Movie, the Musical, and the Novel

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A new skateboard.
A new guitar.
A new outfit.
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1:  What chore does Tom get his friends to help him with at the beginning of the book?

a. Doing the laundry

b. Babysitting his cousin

c. Painting the fence

d. Ironing shirts
2:  All the boys envy Huck Finn because

a. he has the attentions of Becky Thatcher

b. his father is the town sheriff

c. he has complete freedom

d. he doesn’t live in a house
3:  Huck and Tom go to the cemetery to

a. bury a dead cat

b. look for ghosts

c. find Huck’s father’s grave

d. meet Injun Joe
4:  Whose murder do Huck and Tom witness at the cemetery?

a. Huck’s father’s

b. Injun Joe’s

c. Dr. Robinson’s

d. Judge Thatcher’s
5:  Who frames Muff Potter for the murder?

a. Judge Thatcher

b. Dr. Robinson

c. Huck

d. Injun Joe
6:  Where do the boys go to live as pirates?

a. Black Rock Island

b. Eagle Island

c. Jackson Island

d. Treasure Island
7:  How do the boys discover that the town thinks they have drowned?

a. A stranger tells them.

b. They read about it in the paper.

c. A steamboat firing cannons goes by.

d. Tom finds out when he goes back to leave Aunt Polly a note.
8:  Tom and Becky get trapped

a. in the abandoned house

b. on Jackson Island

c. in McDougal’s cave

d. in the Widow Douglas’ attic
9:  What is the approximate worth of the treasure that Tom and Huck discover?

a. $1,000

b. $12,000

c. $500

d. $4,000
10:  Huck agrees to become civilized and live with the Widow Douglas if he can

a. join Tom’s band of robbers

b. spend the money however he chooses

c. bring his father

d. sleep in his clothes
11:  Who said the following: “The widder eats by a bell; she goes to bed by a bell; she gits up by a bell – everyting’s so awful reg’lar a body can’t stand it.”

a. Aunt Polly

b. Injun Joe

c. Huck

d. Tom
12:  Who says the following: “Why that ain’t anything. I can’t fall; that ain’t the way it is in the book. The book says…”

a. Tom

b. Becky Thatcher

c. Huck



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