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WorksheetsChapters 1-9 Tom Sawyer
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 23mins
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1.
"The harder Tom tried to fasten his mind on his book, the more his ideas wandered."
What could have helped Tom in this situation?
What could have helped Tom in this situation?
a)
loud music
b)
TttT
c)
a cheeseburger
d)
a love letter from Becky
2.
Mark Twain compared the tick that Huck and Joe played with during school to a prisoner. What figurative language is at work here?
a)
imagery
b)
hyperbole
c)
simile
d)
personification (a special kind of metaphor)
3.
What is your best inference about the following narrated scene?
"A tremendous whack came down on Tom's shoulders, and its duplicate on Joe's, and for the space of two minutes, the dust continued to fly from the two jackets and the whole school to enjoy it."
"A tremendous whack came down on Tom's shoulders, and its duplicate on Joe's, and for the space of two minutes, the dust continued to fly from the two jackets and the whole school to enjoy it."
a)
the teacher beat them for fooling around during their lessons.
b)
The kids entered into one massive fight with each other.
c)
Aunt Polly showed up and beat them both with her slipper.
d)
The teacher made the boys wipe the dusty chalkboard with their jackets.
4.
What Notice & Note is at work when Tom noticed Becky's eyes grow wide after he said, "Oh, it's ever so jolly! Why, me and Amy Lawrence--"
a)
Words of the Wiser
b)
Again and Again
c)
Aha Moment
d)
Memory Moment
5.
"Nature lay in a trance that was broken by no sound but the occasional far-off hammering of a wood-pecker," is an example of what kinds of figurative language?
a)
simile and hyperbole
b)
personification and imagery
c)
simile and metaphor
d)
simile and imagery
6.
What Notice & Note and literary term is at work below.
"Now as to the girl. What had he done? Nothing. He had meant the best in the world and been treated like a dog--like a very dog. She would be sorry some day--maybe when it was too late."
"Now as to the girl. What had he done? Nothing. He had meant the best in the world and been treated like a dog--like a very dog. She would be sorry some day--maybe when it was too late."
a)
Tough Question and Internal Conflict
b)
Words of the Wiser and Imagery
c)
Again and Again and dramatic irony
d)
Contrast and Contradiction and hyperbole
7.
Tom's incantation, "Brother, go find your brother," is an example of personification because it refers to an object that he throws in the woods. What is this object?
a)
a rock
b)
a Barlow knife
c)
a tin trumpet
d)
a marble
8.
The fact that Tom and Joe play Robin Hood "by the book from memory," allows a reader to infer what?
a)
They hate everything they read.
b)
The keep a hidden book in the woods and read their lines from it.
c)
The teacher probably did not assign that book; they chose it themselves.
d)
They both read Robin Hood well enough to remember the lines exactly.
9.
While acting out his part in Robin Hook, Tom fell on a nettle and sprang up quicky. What is a nettle?
a)
a plant that induces a stinging pain on creatures that touch it
b)
a synonym for a pinecone
c)
a rock slightly protruding from the ground
d)
a type of pinch bug
10.
The deathwatch beetle is mentioned in the film Practical Magic, and its characteristic ticking sound serves as the harbinger of death. Its nature as an ill omen is alluded to in the fourth book of John Keats' "Endymion." When does Tom hear the deathwatch beetle's ticking?
a)
While lying in bed waiting for Huck's 'meow'
b)
Just after seeing men in the graveyard
c)
When Injun Joe was standing over Muff Potter and the man he just killed
11.
What is Muff Potter's affliction that made it easy for Injun Joe to frame him for murder?
a)
epilepsy
b)
alcholism
c)
easy to anger
d)
amnesia
12.
Mark Twain is whose pseudonym, or pen name?
a)
Thomas Sawyer
b)
Huckleberry Finn
c)
William Thatcher
d)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
13.
In Twain's biography, the author used what extreme language to describe him?
a)
Twain is "greater to literature than steamboats to the Mississippi."
b)
Twain is and will continue to be "a giant of American literature."
c)
"Twain's pencil duels with the literary greats of all-time."
d)
"Reading Twain's stories is like going into the belly of the beast."
14.
Tom Sawyer is
a)
a fictional composite of several boys, including Mark Twain himself.
b)
Mark Twain as a boy.
c)
a fictional name for a childhood friend, Johnny Miller.
d)
a fictional character based on Mark's twin brother, who died at a very young age.
15.
Tom is
a)
an orphan, taken in by his deceased mother's sister
b)
mishievous
c)
melodramatic
d)
all of the these
16.
The dialect and slang, "I'll lick you for that," probably means what in formal English?
a)
If it takes me fewer licks to get to the center of the Tootsie Pop than you, I win the last piece of pie.
b)
I will hit you for that.
c)
I will put my tongue on you if you do not run away.
d)
I will put a stamp on your forehead and send you far away.
17.
When Tom learned how to whistle, Twain compared his accomplishment using which analogy?
a)
to an astronomer discovering a new planet
b)
to a paper boy hitting his target
c)
to a fisherman catching a prize fish
d)
to a sheriff rounding up an outlaw
18.
Twain characterizes Tom directly by saying that he was not the model boy and hated goody-two-shoes types. We can predict that he will probably have a run-in with someone like this, making Twain's words an example of...
a)
setting
b)
allusion
c)
foreshadowing
d)
flashback
19.
Tom picked a fight with a nicely dressed newcomer. It wasn't until the newcomer threw down what two items that Tom actually became physical with him.
a)
two pennies
b)
two flowers
c)
two dead kittens
d)
two clumps of dirt
20.
Mark Twain used which metaphor to show how immense the fence that Tom had to whitewash seemed to him?
a)
the never-ending ocean
b)
a staircase to an ant
c)
a galaxy
d)
a far-reaching continent
21.
Fix Tom's dialect and idiomatic expression by making it formal English. "If you was to tackle this fence..."
a)
If you were to try and paint this fence...
b)
If you were to tackle this running back...
c)
If you was to put bait on this hook...
d)
If you were to run through this fence and break it...
22.
When Tom uses reverse psychology to trick other boys to pay him to do his work, this is a contrast and contradiction that points to what literary device?
a)
irony
b)
dialect
c)
figurative language
d)
antonym
23.
What did Tom throw "like a hailstorm" at Sid for the purpose of revenge?
a)
clumps of dirt
b)
rocks
c)
balloons filled with ice and water
d)
rotten apples
24.
What do Tom and his best friend, Joe Harper, play with a bunch of other boys?
a)
manhunt
b)
cops and robbers
c)
army
d)
cowboys and indians
25.
Tom hasn't even broken up with whom when he becomes lovestruck by a new girl.
a)
Amy Lawrence
b)
Mary Harper
c)
Suzy Harper
d)
Becky Thatcher
26.
The metaphor, "discharging lightnings of wrath from over her spectacles," describes the look that which character gave Tom?
a)
Amy Lawrence
b)
Aunt Polly
c)
Becky Thatcher
d)
The teacher
27.
Tom loathes (hates)
a)
shoes
b)
his curls
c)
baths
d)
all of the answers
28.
Tom loves all of these except
a)
idle time
b)
everyday clothes
c)
church
d)
attention
29.
What author tone (attitude) seems to emanate (come forth) from the narration with regards to church and school?
a)
He thinks it is necessary, but children need more disciplinary actions.
b)
He finds many faults in the proceedings of both church and school.
c)
He shows neither fondness of or distaste for either church or school.
d)
He evidently aspired to be either a reverend or a schoolmaster.
30.
How many Bible verses did Tom have to "memorize" in order to have enough tickets to buy the prize Bible?
a)
10,000
b)
100
c)
500
d)
1000
31.
Despite "memorizing" so many Bible verses, Tom erred by naming David and Goliath as the first two ______________.
a)
prophets
b)
books in the Bible
c)
disciples
d)
human beings
32.
Twain shows how long the sermon was by saying, "it seemed like it would stretch out to the crack of doom." This is an example of what figurative language?
a)
A. hyperbole
b)
B. metaphor
c)
C. simile
d)
D. both A and C
33.
After Tom's pet pinch bug pinched him and his reflex reaction sent it hurling through the air, what did the pinch bug eventually encounter?
a)
The reverend's foot
b)
The schoolmaster's wig
c)
A dog's bottom
d)
The Bible
34.
:"...he was but a woolly comet moving in its orbit with the gleam and speech of light."
This metaphor describes a person or thing that added interesting variety to the church service. What is this person or thing?
This metaphor describes a person or thing that added interesting variety to the church service. What is this person or thing?
a)
a wig flying through the air
b)
a dog recently pinched on the bottom
c)
a pinch bug batted out the open window with a Bible
d)
the reverend preaching with excitement and fervor (intense and passionate feeling)
35.
Tom uses a sore toe and then a loose tooth as reasons to do what?
a)
get out of doing homework
b)
eat pudding and ice cream for his meal
c)
give his chores to Sid and Mary
d)
play hooky from school
36.
How does Aunt Polly yank out Tom's tooth?
a)
with her hand
b)
by tying his tooth to the bedpost and thrusting a chunk of fire at him to make him flinch
c)
with a set of pliers
d)
by tying his tooth to the door knob and quickly closing the door
37.
Now that Tom has a missing tooth, what is he able to do exceptionally well that gains many other boys' admiration.
a)
spit
b)
whistle
c)
gain the girls' sympathies
d)
imitate a steamboat
38.
Who is the "juvenile pariah"?
a)
Willie Mufferson
b)
Tom Sawyer
c)
Huckleberry Finn
d)
Hoss Williams
39.
Which items do Tom and Huck talk about using to perform superstitious activities?
a)
a dead cat, a witch, a bean, spunk water
b)
a dead cat, a rabbit's foot, a horseshoe
c)
a monkey's paw, a brass doorknob, a broken tombstone
d)
a black cat, a dead rat, a tick, a wart
40.
What word means "an enchantment or casting of a spell using words."
a)
Spelling Bee
b)
superstition
c)
incantation
d)
expectorate
41.
For what item does Tom trade his tooth?
a)
a tick
b)
a ticket
c)
a beetle
d)
a peach
42.
The reader knows that Tom purposefully told the teacher that he stopped to talk to Huckleberry so that, after his physical punishment, his secondary punishment would be to sit next to the girls. This is...
a)
A. foreshadowing
b)
B. dramatic irony
c)
C. humor
d)
D. Both B and C
43.
What message does Tom eventually write on the slate for the new girl, Becky Thatcher?
a)
"Want2d8?"
b)
"I love you."
c)
"URMYSOLM8."
d)
"Meet me at recess."
44.
When the teacher yanked Tom by the ear back to his own seat, Tom had a "tingling ear" but a "jubilant heart." What theme can be extracted from this contrast and contradiction?
a)
All is fair in love and school.
b)
Love is a battlefield.
c)
Education is a killjoy.
d)
A boy in love cares not an ounce about pain.
45.
What does Tom lose because he is so distracted with his internal conflict of being overwhelmingly love struck?
a)
his homework that is due
b)
his memory, thus failing a test
c)
his concentration, thus relinquishing his spelling bee medal by misspelling "baby words"
d)
his ability to be artistic
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