1. a) the light socket  b) grabbing  c) crazy Chester  d) the cat’s tail  e) headed for (11 words)
2. a) Jennifer flipped  b) yelling  c) onto the floor  d) her strained spinach  e) at the baby-sitter (12 words)
3. a)  looked through  b) for so small a thing   c) she seldom or never   d) her glasses  e) as a boy  (16 words)
4. a) daintily  b) and stepped back  c) Tom swept his brush  d) to note its effect  e) back and forth (16 words)
5. a) a wilder, heartier interest   b) if she had built   c) the boy could not   d) a fire   e) have shown  f) under him (18 words)

1. An antecedent is a type of noun or pronoun.  a) True  b) False
2. How many "numbers" do pronouns have?  a) 1  b) 2  c) 3  d) 4  e) many
3. How many "persons" do pronouns have?  a) 1  b) 2  c) 3  d) 4  e) many
4. How many "genders" do pronouns have?  a) 1  b) 2  c) 3  d) 4  e) many
5. How many antecedents does a pronoun have?   a) 1  b) 2  c) 3  d) 4  e) none
6. Choose the appropriate description of the pronoun it.   a) plural/1st person/masculine  b) singular/1st person/neuter  c) plural/3rd person/neuter  d) singular/3rd person/masculine  e) singular/3rd person/neuter
7. Everybody brought _________ lunch with a sandwich.  a) his or her  b) their c) its
8. All of the food was still in _______ container.  a) their  b) it's  c) its  d) none of the above
9. p67, #1:  a) them, people  b) them, stories  c) them, tales  d) about, them  e) NOTA
10. p67, #4:  a) with, they  b) they, fruit  c) they, seeds  d) they, settlers  e) NOTA

Tom Sawyer Quiz. (ch. 23)

1. Which of these quotes comes from the scene depicted at left?  a) "Why, Tom Sawyer, we wouldn't be alive two days that got found out."  b) "Thomas Sawyer, where were you on the seventeenth of June, about the hour of midnight?"  c) "I reckon he's a goner."  d) "Little hands, and weak--but they've helped Muff Potter a power..."  e) NOTA
2. "Little hands, and weak--but they've helped Muff Potter a power, and they'd help him more if they could." (p151) Why is this ironic?  a) The boys can't help him anyway.  b) The boys' oath is stupid.  c) They are the only ones who can help him.  d) Muff thinks he did it.  e) NOTA
3. Which of these did the prosecution NOT use as evidence that Muff did it?  a) The fact that the knife was Muff's.  b) Muff's guilty behavior at the scene.  c) Muff washing up in the creek.  d) Injun Joe's eyewitness account.  e) They used them all.
4. At the beginning of the trial, what was Muff's lawyer's strategy for defending him?  a) To admit he did it and ask for mercy.  b) To prove that Muff couldn't have done it because he got whacked in the head.  c) To show that there wasn't enough proof that Muff did it.  d) To plead guilty by reason of drunkenness.  e) All of the above.
5. "Tom was out late that night and came to bed through the window." (p151)  Where did he go?  a) To the jail to see Muff one more time.  b) To see Huck and try to talk him into telling.  c) To see Muff's lawyer.  d) To follow Injun Joe around, trying to get evidence that he did it.  e) There is no way to know.
6. Who is the man with the club?  a) Injun Joe  b) Muff Potter  c) Injun Joe's accomplice  d) Doc Robinson  e) NOTA

Tom Sawyer Aloud.