The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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SHORT ANSWER STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS
Chapters 29-31
1. Against whom was the revenge job about which Injun Joe spoke?
2. Who saved the Widow Douglas?
3. What ended the search for the two men who were near Widow Douglas' house?
4. How did Tom and Becky get lost in the cave?
5. Why did Tom blow out Becky's candle?
6. Who else was in the cave at the same time as Becky and Tom?
Vocabulary - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Chapters 29 - 31
Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues
Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence.
Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you
think the underlined words mean on the lines provided.
45. . . . planted his foot carefully and firmly, after balancing, one-legged, in a precarious way and almost
toppling over, first on one side and then on the other.
46. Whispers passed along and a boding uneasiness took possession of every countenance.
47. All the tedious night the town waited for news . . . .
48. . . . and mottoes with which the rock walls had been frescoed (in candle smoke).
49. . . . a little stream of water, trickling over a ledge and carrying a limestone sediment with it, had, in
the slow-dragging ages, formed a laced and ruffled
50. The poor morsel of food only whetted desire.
Part II: Determining the Meaning: Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions.
___ 45. precarious A. indestructible
___ 46. countenance B. painted
___ 47. tedious C. stimulated; sharpened
___ 48. frescoed D. face
___ 49. imperishable E. dangerously lacking in security or stability
___ 50. whetted F. tiresome by reason of extreme length or slowness