Selection Test: from the Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Selection Test: from the Adventures of Tom Sawyer

8th Grade

10 Qs

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Selection Test: from the Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Selection Test: from the Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Assessment

Quiz

English

8th Grade

Medium

CCSS
RL.8.4, L.8.4A, RL.8.2

+8

Standards-aligned

Created by

Bethany Howard

Used 12+ times

FREE Resource

10 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What conflict, or problem, does Tom Sawyer face in the story?

He has to stop his friends from painting his fence.

He has to whitewash a fence and does not want to.

He has to convince Ben Rogers to act like a riverboat.

He has to find enough work for his friends to do.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.3

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which is an example of dramatic irony, or knowledge that readers have but characters do not?

Tom appears reluctant to allow Ben to paint the fence.

Tom is commanded by Aunt Polly to paint the fence.

Tom runs out of whitewash for the fence by mid-afternoon.

Tom collects items from several boys who want to paint.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.6

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which word best describes Mark Twain's tone in telling the story?

critical

mysterious

innocent

amused

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.RL.8.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Tom Sawyer learns that work is

an honest way to earn money.

needed to make a home look good.

anything someone is required to do.

an opportunity to do things he enjoys.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.W.8.9A

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Tom tells Ben Rogers that he likes whitewashing the fence to

trick Ben into doing the work for him.

prove that he has artistic talent.

avoid going swimming with Ben.

show there are many chores he enjoys.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.3

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The story is told from the point of view of

one of the story's characters.

a humorous first-person narrator.

a narrator who speaks for Tom.

an omniscient third-person narrator.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.6

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Covet means to

obtain something by lying.

strongly wish for something.

trick someone into working.

cover something with blankets.

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.4B

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

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