Adventures of Tom Sawyer Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. Who joins Tom in running away to Jackson’s Island and pretending to be a pirate?
Joe Harper and Huck Finn
Joe Harper and Muff Potter
Huck Finn and Alfred Temple
Sid and Ben Rogers
2. What happens when Tom secretly gives Aunt Polly’s painkiller to the cat, Peter?
Peter falls asleep under the bed
Peter reacts wildly and races around the room
Peter carries the bottle into the yard
Peter refuses it and scratches Tom
3. Tom receives a Bible at Sunday school despite lacking the expected preparation. How has he qualified for the prize?
He has traded small possessions for other children’s tickets
He has persuaded Mary to give him her award tickets
He has secretly memorized the required verses overnight
He has convinced the superintendent that he is a visiting student
4. Tom arrives late at school and admits that he stopped to talk with Huck Finn. Why is the resulting punishment useful to Tom?
It excuses him from reciting his lesson
It allows him to leave school and search for treasure
It gives him a chance to pass Huck a secret message
It places him on the girls’ side near Becky Thatcher
5. Near the end, Huck dislikes the restrictions of living with the Widow Douglas and runs away. How does Tom persuade him to return?
He says Huck will lose his share of the treasure otherwise
He promises that Aunt Polly will remove all the household rules
He argues that Becky will help Huck escape whenever he wants
He says Huck must become respectable to belong to Tom’s robber band
6. Tom secretly returns from Jackson’s Island and learns that the townspeople think the boys have drowned. What plan does he form?
The boys will remain hidden until a reward is offered
The boys will appear at their own funeral
The boys will send Aunt Polly a message from another town
The boys will pretend that river pirates captured them
7. Immediately after the graveyard crime, how do Tom and Huck respond to the danger of what they know?
They report everything anonymously to Judge Thatcher
They ask Aunt Polly to confront Injun Joe
They leave a warning at Muff Potter’s home
They swear in blood to keep silent
8. Huck overhears Injun Joe planning an attack on the Widow Douglas. What does Huck do?
He asks Tom to hide the widow in the cave
He confronts Injun Joe outside her house
He alerts the Welshman, whose group intervenes
He warns Muff Potter, who guards her home alone
9. Aunt Polly orders Tom to whitewash a fence. How does he persuade other boys to do the work for him?
He promises that Aunt Polly will pay them afterward
He claims that whitewashing is required to join his gang
He tells them the fence hides a clue to buried treasure
He acts as though whitewashing is a rare and enjoyable privilege
10. What do Tom and Huck witness in the graveyard?
Dr. Robinson attacks Injun Joe and frames Muff Potter
Muff Potter steals a body and escapes with Injun Joe
Injun Joe kills Dr. Robinson and frames Muff Potter
A group of robbers hides stolen gold in a grave
11. Where is the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Tom’s home, located?
Along the Mississippi River in Missouri
Along the Ohio River in Kentucky
On the Atlantic coast in Virginia
Near the Great Lakes in Illinois
12. Who wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?
Robert Louis Stevenson
Louisa May Alcott
Mark Twain
Washington Irving
13. While lost in McDougal’s Cave with Becky, what helps Tom search farther through the passages and eventually locate a way out?
A trail of candle wax left by other visitors
Marks that Huck carved into the cave walls
A kite line that lets him explore without losing his route
A map borrowed from Judge Thatcher
14. Where do Tom and Huck ultimately recover Injun Joe’s hidden treasure?
In McDougal’s Cave, beneath a cross
Inside an abandoned boat near Jackson’s Island
Beneath a graveyard headstone
Under the floor of the haunted house
15. Judge Thatcher has the cave entrance sealed after Tom and Becky escape. Why does this news horrify Tom?
He left Becky’s belongings inside the cave
He knows Injun Joe was still inside
Huck had planned to search the cave that night
The sealed entrance was the only route to Jackson’s Island
16. Why does Becky Thatcher become upset after she and Tom declare their love?
Tom refuses to meet her at school
Tom reveals that he was previously engaged to Amy Lawrence
Tom says he plans to leave St. Petersburg
Tom mocks the gift she gives him