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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Guided Reading Questions
Chapter 1
1. How does Tom get out of being “switched”?
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2. Why does Tom live with his Aunt Polly?
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3. How does Aunt Polly catch Tom for playing hooky?
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4. What does Tom do to the new boy? Why?
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5. Who is waiting for Tom when he climbs in the window late at night?
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Chapter 2
1. What is Tom’s Saturday job for punishment?
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2. How does he escape doing his punishment? What does he do instead?
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3. According to Twain, what is the difference between work and play?
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4. Why is the technique Tom uses on Jim less effective than the technique he uses on the other boys?
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Chapter 3
1. What is Tom’s reward for whitewashing the fence?
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2. As Tom passes by Judge Thatcher’s House, he sees a new girl in the garden for which he developed and instant liking. What does he do?
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3. Why doesn’t Aunt Polly belt Sid for breaking the sugar bowl?
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4. Why did Aunt Polly not apologize to Tom?
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Chapter 4
1. What does a pupil get when he or she has ten yellow tickets?
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2. How does Tom get his ten yellow tickets?
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3. How is Tom’s deceitfulness revealed?
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The author makes fun of many people in this chapter by describing how they were “showing off”. Match the action with the show-off.
Judge Thatcher running around with books making a fuss
Young lady teachers smiling proudly and importantly
Librarian scolding; displaying discipline
Young men teachers lovingly warning children; patting heads
Chapter 5
1. What does Tom play with during the lesson?
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2. What descriptive words does Twain use in this scene?
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Chapter 6
1. Why does Tom sometimes wish there was no weekend?
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2. How does Aunt Polly use a chunk of fire to pull Tom’s tooth?
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3. Why is Tom the center of attention at school the next day?
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4. Choose a word to describe Huck Finn and support this with specifics from the description of him in the text.
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5. According to Tom and Huck, what are dead cats good for?
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6. Why does Tom admit out loud that he was late for class because he “stopped to talk to Huckleberry Finn”?
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Chapter 7
1. What do Tom and Joe play with during the lesson?
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2. What do Tom and Becky do at school during recess?
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3. What blunder does Tom make during his engagement to Becky?
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Chapter 8
1. What does Tom decide to be?
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2. Why is it easier for Tom to play hooky than it is for you?
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Chapter 9
1. Why do Tom and Huck go to the graveyard?
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2. Besides Huck and Tom, who else is at the graveyard?
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3. Who kills the doctor?
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4. Why do you think this person kills the doctor?
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Chapter 10
1. Why do Tom and Huck decide to keep mum about the graveyard incident?
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2. What oath do Tom and Huck swear to? How do they seal this oath?
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Chapter 11
1. How does Tom try to keep from talking in his sleep?
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2. Why does Tom bring things to Muff Potter in Jail?
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3. How do Tom and Huck explain that Injun Joe could lie under oath and still get away with it?
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4. Why do the villagers not tar and feather Injun Joe?
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Chapter 12
1. What happens to Peter the cat?
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2. How does the cat react to what Tom gave him?
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3. How does Tom show off to Becky?
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Chapter 13
1. What forces Tom into pursuing a “life of crime”?
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2. Who joins Tom in his “life of crime”?
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3. Why is Huck suddenly disappointed with the state of his clothes?
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Chapter 14
1. How do townspeople find drowned bodies in the water? (With a canon?)
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2. Why do the boys suddenly feel like heroes?
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3. At the end of the chapter, Tom leaves the camp. Where do you predict he is going?
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Chapter 15
1. Where does Tom end up going?
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2. What are Mrs. Harper and Aunt Polly saying about their boys?
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3. What does Tom hear about the funeral arrangements?
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Chapter 16
1. What does Huck teach Tom and Joe to do?
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2. What happens to them?
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Chapter 17
1. How does Becky react to Tom’s death?
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2. Where do the boys hide during the funeral sermon?
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3. What does Aunt Polly do to Tom and Huck upon their arrival?
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Chapter 18
1. What is Tom’s dream?
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2. What does Tom do to anger Becky? Why?
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3. What does Alfred do to Tom’s spelling book?
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4. Is Becky going to tell Tom?
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Chapter 19
1. Why is Aunt Polly angry with Tom?
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2. How does Aunt Polly know that Tom was telling the truth about the bark?
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Chapter 20
1. What makes Becky tear the teacher’s book?
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2. What noble thing does Tom do?
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3. In this chapter, Becky has an impulse to get up and tell the teacher that is was Alfred Temple who spills the ink on Tom’s spelling book. Why does she decline from doing this?
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Chapter 21
1. How do the boys steal Mr. Dobbin’s wig?
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2. Why do they do this?
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Chapter 22
1. Based on the first two paragraphs, what does Tom learn about when you cannot do something versus when you are free to do something?
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2. Name two things that make Tom’s summer vacation miserable.
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3. About what does Tom still feel guilty?
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Chapter 23
1. How does Tom feel after talking with Muff Potter?
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2. Who does Muff Potter’s attorney call to the stand?
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3. What does Tom tell the court?
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Chapter 24
1. How do the townspeople react to Tom’s telling on Injun Joe?
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2. Why are Tom’s nights scary?
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Chapter 25
1. Who does Tom invite to go treasure hunting with him?
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2. What does Huck want to do with his share of the treasure if any are found? Why won’t he want to save any of it?
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3. On what five things will Tom want to spend his share of the treasure?
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4. Why do Tom and Huck go back to the dead tree limb at midnight?
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Chapter 26
1. Why do the boys stop treasure hunting?
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2. Who is the Spaniard?
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3. Why are the boys distressed that they left the spade and the pick downstairs?
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Chapter 27
1. Why does Tom think that maybe the adventure was a dream?
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2. Where could Injun Joe’s Number Two den be?
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3. What plan do Tom and Huck make for finding the real treasure?
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Chapter 28
1. How does Tom get into the Number Two?
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2. What scares Tom when he enters the Number Two?
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Chapter 29
1. Where does Becky’s mom think she is going to stay that night?
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2. Where does Becky plan on staying?
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3. Against who is the revenge job about which Injun Joe speaks of?
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4. Who saves the Widow Douglas?
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Chapter 30
1. What large mistake does Huck make while he tries to lie about how he discovered the plot to harm the widow?
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2. Where/when do Judge Thatcher’s wife and Mrs. Harper discover that Becky is missing?
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3. What ends the search for the two men who are near the Widow Douglas’s house?
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Chapter 31
1. How do Becky and Tom get lost in the cave?
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2. Why does Tom blow out Becky’s candle?
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3. Who else is in the cave at the same time as Tom and Becky?
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Chapter 32
1. How are Tom and Becky saved?
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2. What happens to Injun Joe?
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Chapter 33
1. If Injun Joe knew he couldn’t hack his way out with a knife, why did he even try?
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2. Where is the real “Number Two”?
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3. Where does the Welshman take Tom and Huck at the end of the chapter?
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Chapter 34
1. What does the Widow announce that she wants to give Huck?
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2. How much money is in the treasure?
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Chapter 35
1. How much money does Tom get every day?
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2. How does Tom convince Huck to stay with the Widow Douglas?
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