SparkNotes: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Quiz

1. How does Tom trick his friends into helping him whitewash the fence?

(A) He offers them marbles

(B) He promises to go swimming with them when the job is done

(C) He tells them Aunt Polly wants them to help

(D) He convinces them that the job is fun

2. Why do Tom and Huck first go to the graveyard?

(A) To dig up a body

(B) To charm away warts

(C) To dig for buried treasure

(D) To kill a cat

3. What is Jackson’s Island?

(A) A small island in the middle of the Mississippi River

(B) A tavern in town

(C) An amusement park in St. Louis

(D) The setting of Tom’s favorite adventure book

4. Who is Sid?

(A) Aunt Polly’s boyfriend

(B) Tom’s cocker spaniel

(C) Tom’s younger half-brother

(D) Tom’s father

5. What does Injun Joe do after Tom testifies against him?

(A) He denies his guilt

(B) He flees out the window

(C) He terrorizes the boys

(D) He kills Muff Potter

6. What insect does Tom release in church?

(A) A tick

(B) A grasshopper

(C) A ladybug

(D) A pinch-bug

7. Who is blamed for the murder of Dr. Robinson?

(A) Muff Potter

(B) Injun Joe

(C) Hoss Williams

(D) Tom Sawyer

8. What does Tom do to win a Bible in Sunday school?

(A) He memorizes 2000 Bible vers

(B) esHe takes the blame for someone else’s misdeed

(C) He trades the other children for their tickets

(D) He testifies at Muff Potter’s trial

9. What does Huck do outside Tom’s window to summon him to their midnight adventures?

(A) He barks like a dog

(B) He meows like a cat

(C) He crows like a rooster

(D) He hoots like an owl

10. Who is the first of the boys to suggest abandoning the pirating expedition?

(A) Tom Sawyer

(B) Huckleberry Finn

(C) Ben Rogers

(D) Joe Harper

11. Who is unaffected by the revival that sweeps through town?

(A) Tom Sawyer, who is sick at the time

(B) Huck Finn, who has no parents to supervise his religious education

(C) Sid, who is always mean and selfish

(D) Mary, who is too good to need reforming

12. What day is bad luck for hunting buried treasure?

(A) Halloween

(B) Examination Day

(C) Friday

(D) Tuesday

13. Why does Huck not go on the picnic?

(A) Because he has promised to keep watch for Injun Joe

(B) Because he has not been invited

(C) Because he cannot stand girls

(D) Because he is afraid of boats

14. What happens when Tom and Joe learn to smoke?

(A) They win Huck’s friendship

(B) They get a whipping from Aunt Polly

(C) They are expelled from Sunday school

(D) They get sick

15. Who decides to have McDougal’s Cave bolted shut?

(A) Judge Thatcher

(B) Mrs. Harper

(C) Injun Joe

(D) Tom Sawyer

16. What will become of the treasure Huck and Tom find?

(A) It will be returned to the rightful owners

(B) It will be spent on a memorial for Injun Joe

(C) It will be invested for the boys

(D) It will be donated to the Sunday school

17. Who is the only person to hug Huck when the three boys return for the funeral?

(A) Tom Sawyer

(B) Becky Thatcher

(C) Muff Potter

(D) Aunt Polly

18. Who adopts Huck Finn at the end of the novel?

(A) Aunt Polly

(B) Widow Douglas

(C) Judge Thatcher

(D) Muff Potter

19. Whom does Tom encounter in the cave?

(A) Judge Thatcher

(B) Injun Joe

(C) Huck Finn

(D) Muff Potter

20. What keeps Injun Joe from finding Tom and Huck hidden upstairs in the haunted house?

(A) They jump out the window

(B) A noise frightens Injun Joe away

(C) The staircase begins to crumble

(D) The treasure distracts him

21. Why does Injun Joe want revenge on the Widow Douglas?

(A) Because her husband once punished and humiliated him

(B) Because she never returned his affections when they were younger

(C) Because she made a racist comment about Native Americans

(D) Because she will not give him any ice cream

22. Whom does Tom suspect of spilling ink on his spelling book?

(A) Becky Thatcher

(B) Huck Finn

(C) Alfred Temple

(D) Himself

23. What is Huck most afraid of when he and Tom return to the cave to find the treasure?

(A) Injun Joe’s ghost

(B) Being locked in

(C) A band of robbers

(D) Bats

24. Who doesn’t believe Tom’s claim that he dreamed about things that occurred at home while he was pirating on Jackson’s Island?

(A) Aunt Polly

(B) Cousin Mary

(C) Becky Thatcher

(D) Sid

25. What does Tom find behind door No. 2 at the Temperance Tavern?

(A) Milk and cookies

(B) Whiskey and Injun Joe

(C) Buried treasure

(D) A dead cat