The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Study Help: Quiz

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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