This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > American Classics > The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer > The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer Quiz 6 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. She was half sorry her ..... had miscarried, and half glad that Tom had stumbled into obedient conduct for once. A) Melancholy. B) Exultation. C) Sagacity. D) Grandeur. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sagacity. 2. What question did the gentleman ask to check on Tom's studies? A) He asked about Tom's hobbies. B) He asked about Tom's family. C) He asked about the names of the first two disciples of Jesus Christ. D) He asked about Tom's favorite subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He asked about the names of the first two disciples of Jesus Christ. 3. The three boys decided to go back ..... A) To school. B) Home. C) To the river. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Home. 4. What was the first thing Tom did when he passed by Jeff Thatcher's house and saw a girl? A) He fell in love. B) He made fun of her. C) Shouted him. D) I greet her. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He fell in love. 5. According to the author, work is whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of A) Whatever a person enjoys. B) That which is free. C) Whatever a body is not obliged to do. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Whatever a body is not obliged to do. 6. Why did Becky feel ashamed after Tom saw the anatomy book? A) Because it was a forbidden book. B) Because she was reading it. C) Because she got caught. D) Because she tore a page. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Because she tore a page. 7. Who got drenched with water? A) Mary. B) Sid. C) Tom. D) Aunt Polly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tom. 8. Why did Aunt Polly say that Saturday isn't going to be a holiday for Tom? (pg. 2) A) Because he is going to work. B) Because he is going to the park. C) Because he is going to the river. D) Because he is going to school. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because he is going to work. 9. What was the 2nd place where they went to find the treasure? A) No where. B) Near a pine tree. C) Near a grave with a dead cat. D) In a old house. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In a old house. 10. What did Tom trade Billy Fisher? A) Marbles. B) Apple. C) Kite in good repair. D) Dead Rat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kite in good repair. 11. Reasonable or believable A) Apprehensive. B) Plausible. C) Blight. D) Furtive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plausible. 12. Everybody thought they were ..... A) Happy. B) Dead. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dead. 13. What makes the prospect of spending the day whitewashing even worse? A) The hot sun makes the job very difficult. B) Tom felt that he was being unfairly punished. C) It is tedious and dirty work. D) The other boys would have lots of fun and tease Tom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The other boys would have lots of fun and tease Tom. 14. What punishment did Aunt Polly give Tom? A) Sweep the yard. B) Do the dishes. C) Whitewash the fence. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Whitewash the fence. 15. Having or exercising the power of fluent, forceful, and appropriate speech A) Spectacle. B) Oblivion. C) Eloquent. D) Conspicuous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eloquent. 16. According to the anatomy book that Becky found on the teacher's desk, we could say that the teacher wanted to be: A) Astronaut. B) Nurse. C) Doctor. D) Psychologist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Doctor. 17. WHO WAS THE BOY WITH WHO'S HELP BECKY IRRITED TOM A) ALFRED. B) JOE. C) TEMPLE. D) HARPER. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ALFRED. 18. How did Tom react when the teacher asked who tore the book? A) He laughed. B) He denied it. C) He blamed Becky. D) He confessed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He confessed. 19. Tom got Ben to help him whitewash by A) Paying him. B) Beating him. C) Doing a bad job. D) Pretending it was fun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pretending it was fun. 20. What did Huck say that him and Tom could do if they could find a rope? A) Slope. B) Tie the Boat up. C) Hang the swing from the tree. D) Play Tug of War. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Slope. 21. When Harper's mother got angry with him, Tom and Harper decided to ..... A) Stay at home. B) Run away from home. C) Go to school. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Run away from home. 22. What treasures did Tom collect by trading chances to paint the fence? A) Twelve marbles, a key, a tin soldier, six firecrackers, and a brass doorknob. B) Six firecrackers, an orange, and a brass doorknob. C) A bicycle, a baseball bat, and a kite. D) A gold watch, a diamond ring, and a yacht. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Twelve marbles, a key, a tin soldier, six firecrackers, and a brass doorknob. 23. "He ..... school again, " she thought. She decided to use her secret weapon; A) Not gone. B) Truant. C) Skipped. D) Missed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skipped. 24. The religious leader delivered a sermon on the need to live respectfully.Here sermon means ..... A) Interesting talk. B) A tedious interview. C) Letter written at great length. D) Moral lecture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Moral lecture. 25. They spent their days ..... near the Mississippi river. A) Sleeping. B) Surfing. C) Playing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Playing. 26. (of a feeling or habit) long-established and unlikely to change. A) Inveterate. B) Apprehensive. C) Windfall. D) Deluge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inveterate. 27. His plan had worked. Soon other boys came and asked to paint too. By early ..... both sides of the fence were finished, and Tom's pockets were full of presents. A) Morning. B) Daytime. C) Evening. D) Afternoon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Afternoon. 28. Next day Towm went to Sunday school. How did he get caught? A) The minister asked him to read verses of the Bible. B) He had many yellow tickets. C) He was a clever boy. D) He leaned all the verses of the Bible. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The minister asked him to read verses of the Bible. 29. Watchful, cautious, or alert A) Insipid. B) Waylay. C) Oblivion. D) Warily. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Warily. 30. Where did Hucklberry Finn live? A) In the garden. B) In the town. C) In the street. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the street. 31. This chapter suggests that when faced with an unpleasant job, you should A) Make the best of it. B) Try to get out of it. C) Do your fair share. D) Grin and bear it. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Try to get out of it. 32. What was Ben Rogers doing while Tom was painting the fence? A) Personating a car. B) Personating a steamboat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personating a steamboat. 33. What was the name of judge Thatcher's brother? A) Mr. Walter. B) Jeff Thatcher. C) Thomas Sawyer. D) Sid. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jeff Thatcher. 34. Composer:song::historian: A) Convalescent. B) Corridor. C) Labyrinth. D) Chronicle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chronicle. 35. What does Huck seem to value most? A) Good Food. B) Fishing. C) Swimming. D) Freedom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Freedom. 36. Where was Tom and Becky at? A) Home. B) Cave. C) The Woods. D) Town. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cave. 37. In order to make someone covet something, you have to make it priceless.Covet may mean ..... A) Deeply desire. B) Get angry at. C) Intensely dislike. D) Hate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deeply desire. 38. Becky ..... the teacher's book. A) Wrote in. B) Draw in. C) Hid. D) Tore. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tore. 39. What did Injun Joe steal? A) A famous painting. B) Seven hundred and fourteen dollars. C) Six hundred and fifty dollars. D) A cup with a lot of value. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Six hundred and fifty dollars. 40. How did Tom react when the new boy threatened him with words? A) He ran away. B) He laughed. C) He turned and whistled. D) He apologized. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He turned and whistled. 41. What did Tom hope to accomplish by pretending not to notice Ben? A) To avoid getting into a fight with Ben. B) To impress Ben with his painting skills. C) To catch Ben by surprise with a prank. D) To trick Ben into painting the fence for him. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To trick Ben into painting the fence for him. 42. What did aunt Polly ask Tom to do? A) Clean his room. B) Paint the fence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paint the fence. 43. What was Tom waiting on? A) Recess. B) Huckleberry. C) Becky Thatcher. D) For the Rain to Stop. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Recess. 44. What did Aunt Polly give Tom for his "good work" whitewashing the fence? A) A cookie. B) An apple. C) A doughnut. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An apple. 45. Where did Tom get the blue ticket from? A) Aunt Polly. B) Huckleberry. C) He bought it from Ben Rogers. D) His Brother. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He bought it from Ben Rogers. 46. Sly; surreptitious; underhanded A) Clamber. B) Furtive. C) Bastion. D) Proffer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Furtive. 47. What did Mary give Tom? A) Barlow Knife. B) Book. C) Apple. D) Tackle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Barlow Knife. 48. What was Ben personating as? What was its name? A) As a bike, Misouri. B) As a steam boat, Big Missouri. C) As a car, Missouri. D) As a airplane, Big Missouri. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) As a steam boat, Big Missouri. 49. I ..... my test carefully, before I turn it in. A) Survey. B) Coveted. C) Dilapidated. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Survey. 50. Did the boys think about the treasure if yes then for how much time A) No. B) Yes 10 days. C) Yes 2 days. D) Yes 2 weeks. E) Yes 1 week . Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Yes 1 week . 51. Joe Harper was near the school. He was sad, too, because A) His mother was angry with him. B) His friend Tom was angry with him. C) His friend Huck was angry with him. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His mother was angry with him. 52. Where did everyone get religion? A) Circus. B) The River. C) Home. D) The Revival. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Revival. 53. Why was Tom late for school? A) He stopped to talk with Huckleberry Finn. B) He went and swam in the lake. C) He was playing hooky. D) He was quarrelling with Sid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He stopped to talk with Huckleberry Finn. 54. At the end of chapter 1 A) Tom was happy. B) Polly punished Tom by making him work on Saturday. C) Tom went to school. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Polly punished Tom by making him work on Saturday. 55. Who did Tom Envy? A) Jimmy Hodges. B) Aunt Polly. C) Becky. D) Sid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jimmy Hodges. 56. How did Aunt Polly reward Tom? A) Aunt Polly rewarded Tom by giving him a new ball. B) Aunt Polly rewarded Tom by giving him an extra helping of pudding. C) Aunt Polly rewarded Tom by taking him for a picnic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aunt Polly rewarded Tom by giving him an extra helping of pudding. 57. Huck ..... went to school. A) Never. B) Sometimes. C) Rarely. D) Always. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Never. 58. What gift did Tom receive for showing the painted fence? A) Chocolate bar. B) Apples. C) Cookies. D) Pera. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apples. 59. Ben and other boys who came by A) Laughed at Tom. B) Talked to Tom. C) Paid Tom for a chance to whitewash the fence. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paid Tom for a chance to whitewash the fence. 60. Injun Joe ..... the doctor with a knife. A) Killed. B) Sang. C) Run. D) None of above. 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