WorksheetsTAoTS Ch. 10-13
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
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Class
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1.
After witnessing a graveyard murder, Tom asks a tough question of Huck. He asks, "Who'll tell? We?" Why is this question important to the story's plot?
a)
It creates characterization of Tom through dialogue.
b)
It creates an external conflict between Huck and Tom. Huck wants to "keep mum" while Tom wants to tell.
c)
It is the story's climax.
d)
It creates an internal conflict in Tom--the decision to keep a secret and the gnawing guilty conscience for making this choice.
2.
What is NOT true about the following words from TAoTS?
"Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer swears they will keep mum about this and they wish they may drop down dead in their tracks if they ever tell and rot."
"Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer swears they will keep mum about this and they wish they may drop down dead in their tracks if they ever tell and rot."
a)
Tom wrote it on a pine shingle using his and Huck's blood.
b)
Both boys signed the blood oath with their initials.
c)
"Keep mum" means to stay quiet.
d)
Huck thinks Tom's writing style is superior.
3.
What is ironic about Huck admiring Tom's writing skill?
"Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer swears they will keep mum about this and they wish they may drop down dead in their tracks if they ever tell and rot."
"Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer swears they will keep mum about this and they wish they may drop down dead in their tracks if they ever tell and rot."
a)
Tom is a model student.
b)
Huck doesn't go to school.
c)
Tom has grammar, usage, and mechanic errors in the oath that he wrote.
d)
Tom does not care about writing, unless he is writing a love note to Becky Thatcher.
4.
While Tom and Huck were finishing the blood oath, "a figure crept stealthily through a break in the other end of the ruined building... but they [Huck and Tom] did not notice it."
This demonstrates all of the following literary devices EXCEPT for
This demonstrates all of the following literary devices EXCEPT for
a)
dramatic irony
b)
foreshadowing
c)
suspense
d)
flashback
5.
Tom sneaked through his bedroom window late at night. The reader knows Sid was awake. The next morning, no one will speak to or look at Tom at the breakfast table. What inference can the reader make?
a)
Aunt Polly knows Tom witnessed a murder.
b)
Sid tattled on Tom about sneaking out for most of the night.
c)
Aunt Polly does not appreciate Tom being late for breakfast.
d)
Everyone at the breakfast table knows that Tom is going to get the "switch."
6.
When Aunt Polly wept instead of "flogging" Tom for his late night escapade, the guilt this created in Tom was "worse than a thousand whippings." This is an example of
a)
a simile
b)
personification
c)
a metaphor
d)
an oxymoron
7.
When Becky officially broke up with Tom by returning the brass andiron knob (their engagement ring), what idiom did Mark Twain use to show how this made Tom feel?
a)
"This final feather broke the camel's back."
b)
"Tom was at the end of his rope."
c)
"Tom lost his marbles when he saw the andiron knob laying on his desk."
d)
"Tom could no longer see the light at the end of the tunnel."
8.
A citizen claimed to see Muff Potter washing himself at a river branch at about 2 AM. What was humorous about this incriminating piece of evidence?
a)
He was naked and afraid.
b)
He suspiciously sneaked off after he finished washing himself.
c)
Washing was not a habit with Potter, which made his behavior suspicious.
d)
Someone else was awake at 2 AM to witness it.
9.
The news of the murder "flew from man to man, from group to group, from house to house, with little less than telegraphic speed." This is an example of
a)
a hyperbole
b)
irony
c)
foreshadowing
d)
flashback
10.
While citizens were at the murder site, Huck's eyes met Tom's and at once they looked elsewhere, wondering "if anybody had noticed anything in their mutual glance." What kind of conflict are they experiencing at this moment?
a)
internal--person vs. paranoia
b)
external--Tom vs. Huck
c)
external--Tom and Huck vs. citizens
d)
external--Tom and Huck vs. Injun Joe
11.
What is significant about Muff Potter and Injun Joe returning to the murder site?
a)
It shows a contrast and contradiction in their character. Potter has a conscience and Injun Joe does not.
b)
It is the climax of the story.
c)
Muff is now sober and will incriminate Injun Joe.
d)
It allows Injun Joe to blame the grave robbing and the murder on Muff Potter.
12.
Something is bothering Tom internally. The narrator shows Tom's changed behavior again and again. What word is used repeatedly and points toward Tom's specific internal conflict.
a)
terror
b)
distress
c)
melancholy
d)
conscience
13.
Mark Twain used the metaphor "simply fire in liquid form" to describe what?
a)
the cat's vomit after Tom made it drink whiskey
b)
the painkiller that Aunt Polly gave Tom
c)
the whiskey that Huck made Tom drink
d)
the pepper that Aunt Polly put on Tom's tongue for swearing
14.
Aunt Polly "pinned her faith to Pain-killer." Why is putting "faith" in painkiller a contrast and contradiction, and therefore situational irony?
a)
Aunt Polly is a Christian putting faith in substances rather than prayer.
b)
The pain killer is probably just whiskey.
c)
She can't actually pin faith to something.
d)
She thinks Tom is sick even though he is just feeling guilty.
15.
What can readers infer when they realize Tom is pouring the painkiller into a crack in the floor rather than medicating himself with it?
a)
He does not want to get better.
b)
He wants to get in trouble.
c)
It tastes awful.
d)
He is saving it for the cat.
16.
What is Tom's usual "handle" by which Aunt Polly grabs him when he is in trouble?
a)
his hair
b)
his collar
c)
his neck
d)
his ear
17.
Who had an "Aha Moment" when Tom said, "I done it out of pity for him--because he hadn't any aunt."
a)
Peter the cat
b)
Aunt Polly
c)
Muff Potter
d)
Huckleberry Finn
18.
Use context to determine the meaning of the red word. "Doing all the heroic things he could conceive of, and keeping a furtive eye out, all the while, to see if Becky was noticing..."
a)
secretly watchful
b)
painful
c)
rudely staring
d)
emotionless
19.
What is Tom's pirate name?
a)
The Terror of the Red Sea
b)
The Red Handed
c)
The Black Avenger of the Spanish Main.
d)
Captain Hook (duh?)
20.
"Conscience called a truce," is an example of
a)
simile
b)
personification
c)
hyperbole
d)
analogy
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