Vocabulary
Surprise and alarm, leading to panic, deep disappointment, or total confusion.
What is consternation?
The daughter of the town judge, she is known for her love interest, Tom Sawyer.
Who is Becky Thatcher?
Aunt Polly tried to get Tom to admit that _____.
What is he played hooky from school?
The setting of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is _____.
What is St. Petersburg, a fictitious Mississippi River town based on Hannibal, Missouri?
Mary and Sid’s attitude towards Sunday school was _____.
What is Mary and Sid are fond of Sabbath school?
A depiction, in a drawing or verbal description, that deliberately exaggerates or distorts some features of the person or thing represented to produce a comic or grotesque appearance.
What is caricature?
Tom's best friend and partner in crime. Their friendship is really quite simple. The boys enjoy doing the same things: playing hooky, pretending to be Robin Hood, and just generally having fun.
Who is Joe Harper?
The physical isolation of Jackson’s island brings Tom and Joe all the freedom they could hope for. Yet, _____.
What is they find that they are not happy—they miss the social attachments and responsibilities to others that define their lives in the village?
The purpose of Tom visiting the graveyard was _____.
What is Tom wanted to get rid of his warts?
Aunt Polly notices this drastic change in his behavior and, thinking him ill, gives him a dose of _____.
What is pain killer?
Of a man or boy, having qualities of appearance, manner, or behavior conventionally associated with feminine rather than masculine gender; unmanly.
What is effeminate?
The son of the town's vagrant drunkard. Sleeping on doorsteps when the weather is fair and in empty hogsheads during storms.
Who is Huckleberry Finn?
Tom and Huck witnessed a _____ in the graveyard.
What is a murder?
Becky Thatcher reacted to being seated next to Tom by _____.
What is once Becky is seated next to Tom, he tries to befriend her, but she does not respond?
Aunt Polly punished Tom for his misbehavior ______.
What is by having him whitewash the fence?
Speed or liveliness.
What is alacrity?
Tom's half-brother. He is a goody-goody who enjoys getting Tom into trouble. He is mean-spirited but, presents a superficial show of model behavior.
Who is Sid Sawyer?
Tom Sawyer met Becky Thatcher _____.
What is on the porch of her father Judge Thatcher's house?
Tom's strategy for impressing Mr. Walters was _____.
What is Tom has the required tickets, and Mr. Walters is eager to impress Judge Thatcher, the Bible-awarding ceremony proceeds.
Tom gets out of whitewashing the fence because _____.
What is he tricked all the boys in the neighborhood into doing it, and he fooled them into giving him their trinkets?
Something made of, resembling, or having the hardness of adamant--any extremely hard, unbreakable, or impenetrable substance.
What is adamantine?
Tom’s sweet, almost saintly cousin. She holds a soft spot for Tom. Like Sid, she is well behaved, but unlike him, she acts out of genuine affection rather than malice.
Who is Mary?
Tom, Huck, and Joe run away to Jackson's island because _____.
What is Tom feels depressed and dejected because of Becky Thatcher's rejection of him? Joe Harper's situation is similar: He is depressed because his mother punished him for throwing out some cream--a crime of which he is innocent.
When Tom and Joe return to school after their adventures in the graveyard, they _____.
What are flogged for playing hooky?
When Sid accidentally breaks the sugar bowl, _____.
What is Aunt Polly punished and whipped Tom?