Chapters 7-13

Question 1

done in secrecy in order to deceive

Answer 1

clandestine

Question 2

the sense of right and wrong that impels a person to do right

Answer 2

conscience

Question 3

showing little or no emotion

Answer 3

stolid

Question 4

a copy exactly like an original

Answer 4

duplicate

Question 5

settled or confirmed in a habit

Answer 5

inveterate

Question 6

turned away or aside

Answer 6

averted

Question 7

settled in a secure, sheltered place

Answer 7

ensconced

Question 8

covered or stained with blood

Answer 8

gory

Question 9

Why does Becky start to cry?

Answer 9

Tom has previously been engaged.

Question 10

What shakes Tom’s “whole structure of faith”?

Answer 10

A superstition of his fails.

Question 11

Why did the ruffians come to the graveyard?

Answer 11

to take the body of Hoss Williams

Question 12

What lie does Injun Joe tell Muff Potter?

Answer 12

the Potter killed the doctor

Question 13

What do Tom and Huck swear?

Answer 13

to keep silent about what they saw in the graveyard

Question 14

Who tells Aunt Polly about Tom’s escapade?

Answer 14

Sid

Question 15

What takes Tom’s mind off of Muff Potter and Injun Joe?

Answer 15

Becky Thatcher has stopped coming to school.

Question 16

Why do Tom and Joe have a difficult time falling asleep on Jackson Island?

Answer 16

Their conscience makes them feel guilty.

Question 17

Who said, “I can’ t fall. That ain’t the way it is in the book. The book says, ‘Then with one backhanded stroke he slew poor Guy of Guisborne!’ You’re to turn around and let me hit you in the back.”

Answer 17

Tom

Question 18

Who said, “Oh, Joe, you’re an angel! I’ll bless you for this the longest day I live.”

Answer 18

Muff Potter

Question 19

“He had been careful to begin both of his inquest-statements with the fight, without confessing the grave-robbery that preceded it; therefore it was deemed wisest not to try the case in the courts at present.”

Who is spoken about here?

Answer 19

Injun Joe

Question 20

“The pipe dropped from the fingers of the Red-handed, and he slept the sleep of the conscience-free and the weary.
Who is spoken about here?

Answer 20

Huck Finn