Thursday 12/17
Tom Sawyer Reading/Vocabulary/Usage Check--Chapters 32-end
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(2)True or False? Becky's father and the other rescuers
finally found Tom and Becky in the cave.
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(1)When Tom told the story of their adventures in the cave...A)
he told it very realistically, B) he told how Becky broke down and cried,
C) he added many extra details, D) he was too tired to tell the whole story.
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(1)Tom and Becky were in the cave for...A) 2 days, B)
3 days, C) 4 days, D) a fortnight.
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(1)A fortnight is...A) the night before a big holiday
or event, B) a week, C) the longest night of the year, D) two weeks.
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(2)How did people feel about Injun Joe's funeral?
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(1)Swag = ?
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(1)The total amount of the treasure was about...A) five
thousand dollars, B) $12,000, C) Several hundred dollars, D) a tousand
dollars
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(2)Once the judge and the widow invested the boys money,
they each had an income "that was simply __________"... A) five dollars
a week, B) fifty dollars a month, C) a dollar a day and then some, D) twenty
dollars a week.
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(2)Once everyone found out about the treasure, what happened
to every "haunted" house in St. Petersburg?
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(1)Which of the following would the window let Huck do (if
he
asked first)? A) smoke, B) go fishing, C) cuss,
D) scratch in front of people, E) all of the above
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(2)How does Tom get Huck to go back to the widow?
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(2)Why does Mark Twain stop the story where he does?
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(1)One reason that few people vote is because many are ___________
about politics and goverment.
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(2)Tom and Becky followed many _________ twists and turns
in the __________ of the cave, getting themselves further and further away
from the enterance.
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(1)Tom was very _________ when he took Becky's punishment
for her.
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(1)He ate a _________ amount of hot dogs in the contest,
so he won.
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(2)Draw a diagrame of two roads diverging and then
converging.
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(2)Mark Twain is a _____-______, __________ narrator who
knows everything about every charactor. He uses the pronouns he, she, they
and etc., instead of I.
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(5)Find and fix at least five of the spelling/usage
errors in this exercise.
magnanimous, omniscient, palpable, apathetic,
sinuous, prodigious, first-person, second-person, third-person, labyrinth