Final Review

Question 1

an indirect mention of something

Answer 1

allusion

Question 2

fear over future trouble or evil

Answer 2

anxiety

Question 3

promising success

Answer 3

auspicious

Question 4

willing to trust too quickly

Answer 4

credulous

Question 5

fallen into partial ruin

Answer 5

dilapidated

Question 6

careful about a private matter

Answer 6

discreet

Question 7

demonstrative of much emotion

Answer 7

effusive

Question 8

covered or stained with blood

Answer 8

gory

Question 9

formal ceremony of admission into a club or society

Answer 9

initiation

Question 10

settled or confirmed in a habit

Answer 10

inveterate

Question 11

in a way that conveys a meaning opposite of its literal meaning

Answer 11

ironically

Question 12

generous in forgiving an insult

Answer 12

magnanimous

Question 13

state of being completely forgotten

Answer 13

oblivion

Question 14

the power of arousing pity and sadness

Answer 14

pathos

Question 15

to fall back into illness

Answer 15

relapse

Question 16

having many curves or turns

Answer 16

sinuous

Question 17

to talk to oneself

Answer 17

soliloquize

Question 18

a multitude assembled together

Answer 18

throng

Question 19

to lie in wait for and attack

Answer 19

waylay

Question 20

a structure built for vessels to load

Answer 20

wharf

Question 21

How does Tom solve the problem of having to whitewash the fence?

Answer 21

He makes painting the fence seem important and envious to other boys.

Question 22

Why does Tom tell the schoolmaster that he has been fraternizing with Huck Finn?

Answer 22

to be placed in the girls’ section

Question 23

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

Answer 23

A superstition of his fails.

Question 24

Why did the ruffians come to the graveyard?

Answer 24

to take the body of Hoss Williams

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Their conscience makes them feel guilty.

Question 26

What does Tom confess in his heart as the congregation sings at his “funeral”?

Answer 26

proudest moment of his life

Question 27

What was written on the sycamore bark?

Answer 27

We ain’t dead — we are only off being pirates.

Question 28

How does Tom eventually feel about making up the “dream” he told his family?

Answer 28

shame

Question 29

What new thing did Tom discover after he joined the Cadets of Temperance?

Answer 29

Promising not do something makes it more tempting.

Question 30

What raging desire, which comes in every “rightly constructed” boy’s life, came over Tom?

Answer 30

the desire to dig for treasure

Question 31

Who is the old deaf and dumb Spaniard?

Answer 31

Injun Joe

Question 32

Why does Mrs. Thatcher swoon and Aunt Polly fall to crying?

Answer 32

Tom and Becky are still in the cave.

Question 33

What was the fate of Injun Joe?

Answer 33

He became trapped in the cave and died of thirst and hunger.

Question 34

What did Injun Joe mean by his number two being “under the cross”?

Answer 34

It was a secret hiding place in the cave.

Question 35

Why is Huck feeling miserable?

Answer 35

Everything is too regular and ordered for him. He has been dragged into society. The Widow forces manners on him.

Question 36

Who said, “I never did see the beat of that boy!”

Answer 36

Aunt Polly

Question 37

“The pipe dropped from the fingers of the Red-handed, and he slept the sleep of the conscience-free and the weary.”

Who is this about?

Answer 37

Huck

Question 38

Who said, “Pretty thin – as long a dream as that, without any mistakes in it!”

Answer 38

Sid

Question 39

“Two of the savages almost wished they had remained pirates.”

Who is this about?

Answer 39

Tom and Joe

Question 40

Who said, “He’ll tell about me tearing the picture, sure. I wouldn’t say a word, not to save his life!”

Answer 40

Becky

Question 41

Who said, “You’ve ben might good to me, boys – better’n anybody else in this town.”

Answer 41

Muff Potter