This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > American Classics > The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer > The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer Quiz 9 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Tom paused and pretended to think for a moment. "Maybe you can do the back side, " he said. "I'll let you have my apple, " Ben offered. Tom looked at Ben, and then he looked at the apple. He handed Ben the brush. While Ben painted, Tom ..... in the shade. He ate the apple and smiled. A) Sat. B) Laid. C) Slept. D) Rested. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rested. 2. Why did Tom paint the fence? Because he didn't go to school on Friday. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 3. What was Tom's proposal for them to be found after being lost in the cave? A) Shout out. B) Make noises with stones. C) Scare away the bats. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shout out. 4. What haunted Tom and Becky in the cave? A) The ghost of Indian Joe. B) The bats. C) Some terrible shadows. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The bats. 5. The detailed study of the shape and size of the cranium as a supposed indication of character and mental abilities. A) Psychology. B) Geology. C) Phrenology. D) Geometry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Phrenology. 6. What character does Tom meet at the end of chapter 4? A) The "new girl's" father. B) Mr. Joy. C) Injun Joe. D) The "new girl's" sister. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The "new girl's" father. 7. What's the name of Tom's aunt? A) Amy Lawrence. B) Polly. C) Mary. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Polly. 8. What organization does Tom join at the beginning of the summer? A) The Cadets of Exploration. B) The Cadets of Temperance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Cadets of Temperance. 9. What did Tom see in the cave that he decided not to tell Becky? A) He saw a group of bats. B) He saw a shadow that scared him. C) He saw Indian Joe. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He saw Indian Joe. 10. Choose the correct A) Tom always got himself into trouble. B) Tom never got himself into trouble. C) Tom sometimes got himself into trouble. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tom always got himself into trouble. 11. What profession does Tom decide upon as he wanders in the forest? A) Pirate. B) President. C) Explorer. D) Highwayman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pirate. 12. Tom ran away to be a ..... A) Robber. B) Hermit. C) Riverboat captain. D) Pirate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pirate. 13. Aunt Polly didn't want Jim to help Tom because A) Jim would do a bad job. B) She was punishing Tom. C) She paid Tom to whitewash. D) Tom liked to work alone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She was punishing Tom. 14. What appeared out of the sand? A) Small Black Bug. B) Snake. C) Shoe. D) Bottle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Small Black Bug. 15. They looked for a book in an old house. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 16. Why Tom is a liar boy? A) Because he told lies to his parents. B) Because he told lies to his friends. C) Because he told lies to his aunt Polly. D) Because he told lies to his teachers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because he told lies to his friends. 17. Tom was ..... at the graveyard. A) Happy. B) Angry. C) Frightened. D) Sick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Frightened. 18. Huck and Becky couldn't find the way out of the cave. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 19. What was the name of the cave where Tom and Becky were trapped? A) Devil's hole. B) McDonald's Cavern. C) Mc Dougal's Cave. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mc Dougal's Cave. 20. Huck, Tom and Harper went across the ..... on a boat. A) Sea. B) Street. C) River. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) River. 21. Tom was usually responsible for anything that went wrong. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 22. I ..... (spend) a lot of money when I was on holiday. A) Spent. B) Spending. C) Spend. D) Spends. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spend. 23. How did Tom feel when someone grabbed him by the ear at the end of the passage? A) Embarrassed. B) Indifferent. C) Pleased. D) Annoyed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pleased. 24. For what purpose did Aunt Polly bring the family together? A) Organize a sports afternoon. B) Perform religious practices. C) Invite them to eat. D) Celebrate Tom's birthday. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Perform religious practices. 25. She had been reluctant to mention her idea before the large crowd as she was not sure that it would work.It means she was ..... A) Very scared. B) Hesitant. C) Confident. D) Shy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hesitant. 26. Who accompanied Tom to school? A) Mary y Sid. B) Mary and aunt. C) Poly y Jeff Sid. D) Mary y tia Polly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mary y Sid. 27. Did Tom Sawyer love mischief? A) No, he didn't. B) He never did. C) He Sometimes loved mischief. D) Yes, he loved mischief. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Yes, he loved mischief. 28. What did Tom have to do for Sunday School? A) Write a report on tacos. B) Learn a hymn. C) Recite bible verses. D) Make a sermon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Recite bible verses. 29. What lie did Tom tell Aunt Polly to make her feel better? A) He never wishes to see her again. B) He tells her that he had a "dream" about a conversation when he actually listened to it. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He tells her that he had a "dream" about a conversation when he actually listened to it. 30. What did Tom tell Sid about? A) The Adventure. B) Secret. C) All about Huck's story. D) How to get to Town. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Secret. 31. A feeling of sadness with no obvious cause. A) Venerable. B) Melancholy. C) Bananafy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Melancholy. 32. The other boys from St. Petersburg wanted to be Huck because ..... A) They wanted to go to church. B) They didn't want to go to church or school. C) They wanted to sleep outside by the river. D) They wanted to sleep in the barn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They didn't want to go to church or school. 33. What is the name of the Aunt? A) Tom. B) Jimmy. C) Molly. D) Polly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Polly. 34. What was safe in Tom's pocket? A) A Note. B) Bark. C) Paper. D) Leaf. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bark. 35. In chapter 1, Aunt Polly finds Tom in the closet, discovers that his hands are covered with jam, and prepares to give him whipping. How does Tom avoid the whipping? A) He blames it on Sid. B) He apologizes. C) He hides form Aunt Polly. D) He distracts Aunt Polly and runs away. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He apologizes. 36. What did the new boy throw at Tom during their encounter? A) Money. B) A stone. C) A book. D) A toy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A stone. 37. Tom told his Aunt Polly that while he was on the island he had dreamed about all of them, what day of the week did he have that dream? A) Monday. B) Domingo. C) Saturday. D) Wednesday. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wednesday. 38. Who did Tom Kiss? A) Becky. B) Aunt Polly. C) Serena. D) Paulina. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aunt Polly. 39. How did Tom convince the other boys to white wash the fence A) He told them it was a great honour. B) He told them it was a lot of fun. C) He said that it's gives you good luck. D) Both A and B. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A and B. 40. What were Tom's feelings when he first started to whitewash the fence? A) He wanted to start a business. B) He thought there was worst things. C) He hated it. D) He was having fun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He hated it. 41. If I can tell what will happen a week from now, that means I am making a ..... A) Diversion. B) Prediction. C) Lapse. D) Millenium. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prediction. 42. How did Tom finish painting the fence so quickly? A) The other kids gave him things to let them paint the fence. B) Tom was so fast and clever that the job didn't take long. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The other kids gave him things to let them paint the fence. 43. WHERE DID TOM ESCAPE? A) TO THE FOREST. B) TO THE RIVER. C) TO THE FARM. D) TO THE COUNTRYSIDE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TO THE RIVER. 44. AUNT POLLY FORGAVE TOM. HOW MANY TIMES A) 2. B) 9. C) 100. D) 500. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 100. 45. Tom and Huck didn't talk to their friends or Aunt Polly about that night because A) They wanted to eat something first. B) They wanted to go to sleep. C) They were afraid of Injun Joe. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They were afraid of Injun Joe. 46. What surprised Sid to make him wake up and sit up suddenly? A) Aunt Polly's voice. B) Tom's groaning. C) A loud noise outside the window. D) The weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tom's groaning. 47. Becky cried because ..... A) Tom was engaged to Ana Thatcher. B) Tom was engaged to Amy Lawrence. C) Tom didn't love Becky. D) Tom gave her a metal door-handle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tom was engaged to Amy Lawrence. 48. What made Tom's heart full of joy when helping Becky draw? A) Becky's artistic talent. B) The thought of going to the circus. C) Their conversation. D) Becky's laughter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Their conversation. 49. Becky opened the book because she was ..... A) Frightened. B) Curious. C) Happy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Curious. 50. Ben walked up to Tom. "Working, huh? I'm going ..... Don't you wish you could come?" "I'm not working, " replied Tom. "Yes, you are, " said Ben "Well, maybe it is working, but I like it, " said Tom. "What?" shouted Ben. "You like it?" A) Jogging. B) Shopping. C) Swimming. D) Riding. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Swimming. 51. Who was the only person that was mean enough? A) Huck. B) Aunt Polly. C) Sid. D) Tom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sid. 52. Who did Tom pretend not to see? A) Becky Thatcher. B) Mary. C) Sid. D) Aunt Polly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Becky Thatcher. 53. When the author refers to Tom's "pleasant sufferings, " he means that Tom A) Tried to cheers up. B) Liked to hurt others. C) Made everyone laugh. D) Enjoyed feeling sorry for himself. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Enjoyed feeling sorry for himself. 54. Tom and his friends decided to A) Run to the river. B) Run around the house. C) Run away. D) Run to school. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Run away. 55. Where does the back door of Tavern Two come out at? A) By the fence. B) In the backyard. C) The little close alley. D) By the store. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The little close alley. 56. How did Tom Feel? A) Sick. B) That Nobody Loved Him. C) Lazy. D) In Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) That Nobody Loved Him. 57. What does Tom do when he throws dirt at Sid? A) Hide under the table. B) He faces it. C) Run away, jumping the fence. D) Blamed her aunt. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Run away, jumping the fence. 58. "May I play now?" Tom ..... to his aunt. "You can't be finished already! How much of the fence have you painted?" she asked. "All of it. Come and see, " said Tom. "Don't you lie to me, " began Aunt Polly. A) Called. B) Call. C) Calls. D) Calling. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Called. 59. Whose name was found upon the rocky wall? A) Sid. B) Aunt Polly. C) Beck and Tom. D) Injun Joe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beck and Tom. 60. Tom's great law of human action is that people want something if it is A) Free. B) Valuable. C) Hard to get. D) New and shiny. 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