Tom Sawyer Final Study Guide- Sixth Grade Literature
Tom Sawyer Final Study Guide- Sixth Grade Literature
Chapter One:
1. Briefly identify Tom, Aunt Polly, and Sid.
2. Why does Tom dislike the new boy?
3. How does Sid get Tom get into trouble?
Chapter Two:
4. Who is Jim? How does Tom try to trick him?
5. What two generalizations about humans does the author make from Tom’s whitewashing incident?
Chapter Three:
6. How does Tom take revenge on Sid?
7. How does Tom show he is interested in the new girl?
Chapter Four:
8. What do the blue and yellow tickets buy?
9. Why does Tom want a Bible?
Chapter Five:
10. What distraction occurs during church?
11. Briefly describe the Widow Douglas.
Chapter Six:
12. How does Tom try to avoid school? Does it work?
13. Briefly describe Huckleberry Finn.
14. Why are the boys going to the graveyard at midnight?
Chapter Seven:
15. Why does Becky agree to meet Tom at lunch time?
16. What promises does Tom claim are part of his and Becky’s engagement?
17. How does Tom break Becky’s heart? How does he try to make up for it?
Chapter Eight:
18. Why does Injun Joe insist that the doctor pay him more money?
19. How does Injun Joe frame Muff Potter?
Chapter Ten:
20. Why are the boys scared of a stray dog?
21. Why is Tom upset when he finds the brass knob on his desk?
Chapter Eleven:
22. Why does Tom pretend to have a toothache?
23. Why does Tom bring things to Muff Potter in prison?
Chapter Twelve:
24. Why does Tom tell Aunt Polly he likes the Painkiller?
25. What does Tom teach his aunt by giving Painkiller to the cat?
Chapter Thirteen:
26. Why does Joe Harper run away with Tom?
27. Why do the boys think that being a pirate is better than being a hermit?
28. Why are Tom and Joe troubled by their consciences?
Chapter Fourteen:
29. Why are the boys thrilled when they realize that the town believes they are dead?
Chapter Fifteen:
30. How does Tom feel when he hears Aunt Polly talking to Mrs. Harper?
31. Why does Tom decide not to leave his aunt the note?
Chapter Sixteen:
32. What are Tom and Joe really doing when go to “look for Tom’s lost knife”?
Chapter Seventeen:
33. What happens at the funeral?
Chapter Eighteen:
34. Why does Tom pretend he dreamed about his aunt? Does Sid believe his story?
35. What does Becky do to win back Tom?
36. After Alfred realizes Becky is using him, how does he get revenge on Tom?
Chapter Nineteen:
37. What are the two cruel things that Tom does because he “didn’t think”?
38. What does Aunt Polly find in Tom’s pocket?
Chapter Twenty:
39. How does Tom help Becky?
Chapter Twenty-One:
40. How do the boys take revenge on the schoolmaster?
Chapter Twenty-Two:
41. Why is Tom depressed to find Huck quoting scripture?
42. How do Joe and Huck suffer a “relapse” in a different way than Tom does?
Chapter Twenty-Three:
43. Why do Tom and Huck feel guilty when Muff is so grateful for the tobacco they brought him?
44. Where does Tom go the night before the trial?
45. What happens in the courtroom?
Chapter Twenty-Five:
46. Where does Tom think you can find buried treasure?
47. Why do the boys think they should only dig during the day time?
Chapter Twenty-Six:
48. Why do the boys regret bringing their tools to the house?
49. How are Tom and Huck lucky in the haunted house?
Chapter Twenty-Seven:
50. Where do the boys think that Injun Joe’s “Number Two” hiding place is?
Chapter Twenty-Eight:
51. Why doesn’t Tom want to go back into the room to look for the box?
52. What is ironic about the name “Temperance Tavern”?
Chapter Twenty-Nine:
53. Where does Tom want to go after the picnic? Does he think about Huck when he makes these plans?
54. What does Injun Joe have against the Widow? How does he plan to get revenge?
55. How does Huck get help?
Chapter Thirty:
56. What word is Huck amazed to hear from anyone in town? Why is he hearing it now?
57. How does Huck reveal the deaf Spaniard’s identity?
58. How do the townspeople discover that Tom and Becky are missing?
59. How long are Tom and Becky lost?
Chapter Thirty-One:
60. Why does Tom blow out Becky’s candle?
61. Why does Tom tell Becky that they need to stay by the spring?
62. Who does Tom find in the cave?
Chapter Thirty-Two:
63. How do Tom and Becky find their way out of the cave?
64. The townspeople think that the “ragged man” (Injun Joe’s friend) accidentally drowned. What else might have happened to him?
65. What does Becky’s dad do that upsets Tom?
Chapter Thirty-Three:
66. Describe Injun Joe’s cup.
67. Where do Tom and Huck find the treasure?
68. What frightens Huck and makes him want to leave the treasure behind?
69. Why do the boys leave the guns behind?
Chapter Thirty-Five:
70. Why does Huck run away?
71. How does Tom convince Huck to return?