Tom Sawyer Study Questions. Do in notebook daily.
Chapter 12
1. "Because if he'd 'a had one, she'd 'a burnt him one herself!" Who's talking? What's going on? What does he/she mean?
2. What does Tom do when Becky finally comes back to school? 
3. (Quote.) What's her reaction?
Chapter 13
1. Give an example from Chapter 13 of Tom insisting on doing things "the hard way" or "by the book."
2. Draw a map of where the island is, and how the boys got there. Be sure to label it with distances and place names. (p88-91)
3. Why are the boys' consciences bothering them at the end of chapter 13? 
4. Why does Mark Twain call the boys "curiously inconsistent pirates"? (Last line of Chapter 13.) "Because they are pirates who  ________   ________."  (Hint: It also might be called ironic. Hint II: See your answer to the previous question.)
Chapter 14
1. What does Tom think (due to his superstition) he will get, since the inchworm crawled across him? 
2. Where is the boy's raft now? 
3. The boom the boys hear is ______________, and it means the villagers _____________, and that makes them feel _________. 
4. Why are the boys consciences bothering them at the end of Chapter 14?
Chapter 15
# What can we assume Tom wrote on the note he left in Joe's hat at the end of Chapter 14? 
# Name a piece of evidence the villagers use to conclude the boys had drowned. 
# Why does Tom not "capture" the rowboat he uses to get back to the island, even though he's tempted to? 
# Why does Aunt Polly scold Sid? 
# What does Tom start to do, and then decide not to do? (Besides capturing the rowboat.)

Vocabulary Due Tuesday: Look up definitions at learnersdictionary.com and write them IN YOUR NOTEBOOK!  Due Wednesday: Copy and finish the Show Me You Know Sentences in your notebook.
fickle, apathetic, prodigious, magnanimous, palpable, wary, 
proscribe, precarious, canvass (v), picturesque, earnest
Show Me You Know Sentences. (Due Wednesday in notebook.)
Tom thinks girls are fickle...   I was apathetic...   A prodigious amount...   He magnanimously... The fear was palpable...   She looked warily around...   That behavior is proscribed...   He was in a precarious position...   They canvassed the neighborhood...    It was a picturesque village ...   I had to prove I was earnest...



Tom Sawyer Study Questions. Do in notebook daily.

Chapter 12
1. "Because if he'd 'a had one, she'd 'a burnt him one herself!" Who's talking? What's going on? What does he/she mean?
2. What does Tom do when Becky finally comes back to school? 
3. (Quote.) What's her reaction?
Chapter 13
1. Give an example from Chapter 13 of Tom insisting on doing things "the hard way" or "by the book."
2. Draw a map of where the island is, and how the boys got there. Be sure to label it with distances and place names. (p88-91)
3. Why are the boys' consciences bothering them at the end of chapter 13? 
4. Why does Mark Twain call the boys "curiously inconsistent pirates"? (Last line of Chapter 13.) "Because they are pirates who  ________   ________."  (Hint: It also might be called ironic. Hint II: See your answer to the previous question.)
Chapter 14
1. What does Tom think (due to his superstition) he will get, since the inchworm crawled across him? 
2. Where is the boy's raft now? 
3. The boom the boys hear is ______________, and it means the villagers _____________, and that makes them feel _________. 
4. Why are the boys consciences bothering them at the end of Chapter 14?
Chapter 15
# What can we assume Tom wrote on the note he left in Joe's hat at the end of Chapter 14? 
# Name a piece of evidence the villagers use to conclude the boys had drowned. 
# Why does Tom not "capture" the rowboat he uses to get back to the island, even though he's tempted to? 
# Why does Aunt Polly scold Sid? 
# What does Tom start to do, and then decide not to do? (Besides capturing the rowboat.)

Vocabulary Due Tuesday: Look up definitions at learnersdictionary.com and write them IN YOUR NOTEBOOK!  Due Wednesday: Copy and finish the Show Me You Know Sentences in your notebook.
fickle, apathetic, prodigious, magnanimous, palpable, wary, 
proscribe, precarious, canvass (v), picturesque, earnest
Show Me You Know Sentences. (Due Wednesday in notebook.)
Tom thinks girls are fickle...   I was apathetic...   A prodigious amount...   He magnanimously... The fear was palpable...   She looked warily around...   That behavior is proscribed...   He was in a precarious position...   They canvassed the neighborhood...    It was a picturesque village ...   I had to prove I was earnest...