1. Let's _________ a meeting of all the volunteers.
2. The computer says that I have (in)_____________ space to save my file; it won't fit.
3. He didn't actually say it, but he ___________(ed) it very strongly.
4. He lost the debate, because most of his arguments were (in)________.
5. After she left town, she still ____________ (ed) with her friends back home.
6. The __________(atic) diagram for the television covered several large pages.

Mark Twain Paragraphing Sample for Fixing. Postponed until Monday.

Presearch III. Click A if it is a good research topic question. Click B if it is not.

1. How long does a joey stay in his mother's pouch before going out on his own?
2. How was Hitler able to do what he did?
3. Is eating chocolate bad for your health?
4. What did Joan of Arc do to be burned at the stake?
5. Is there a cure for asthma?
6. Who's the best baseball player ever?

Tom Sawyer 23/24

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

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7. If the lawyer promised not to reveal Huck's name, why is Huck still worried about Injun Joe?  a) They still need Huck to testify.  b) Huck thinks Injun Joe "has ways of finding out." c) Huck doesn't trust lawyers.  d) The lawyer didn't swear an oath.  e) Tom had also promised and still told.
8. Picture A was included with chapter 24. Of whom is it a picture?   a) The sheriff.  b) A detective.  c) Judge Thatcher.  d) The minister.  e) The schoolmaster.
9. Which of these was the original caption for Picture B?  a) Injun Joe's Final Revenge.  b) Tom Dreams.  c) The Return of Injun Joe.  d) Injun Joe's Latest Victim.  e) Tom and Injun Joe.
A.   B. 

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