The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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SHORT ANSWER STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS
Chapters 32-35
1. How were Becky and Tom saved?
2. What happened to Injun Joe?
3. Where was the real "Number Two"?
4. How much money was in the treasure?
5. How much money did Tom get every day?
6. How did Tom convince Huck to stay with the Widow Douglas?
Vocabulary - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Chapters 32 - 35
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.
51,52. The petition had been largely signed; many tearful and eloquent meetings had been held, and a
committee of sappy women had been appointed to go in deep mourning and wail around the
governor, and implore him to be a merciful ass and trample his duty underfoot.
53. If he had been Satan himself there would have been plenty of weaklings ready to scribble their
names to a pardon petition and drip a tear on it from their permanently impaired and leaking
waterworks.
54. The candles revealed the fact that it was not really a precipice, but only a steep clay hill twenty or
thirty feet high.
55. They presently emerged into the clump of sumac bushes, looked warily out, found the coast clear,
and were soon lunching and smoking in the skiff.
56. . . . when she pleaded grace for the mighty lie which Tom had told in order to shift that whipping
from her shoulders to his own, the judge said with a fine outburst that it was a noble, a generous, a
magnanimous lie--a lie that was worthy to hold up its head and march down through history breast
to breast with George
Part II: Determining the Meaning: Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions.
___ 51. eloquent A. damaged; diminished in strength
___ 52. implore B. cautiously
___ 53. impaired C. characterized by persuasive, powerful or moving discourse
___ 54. precipice D. courageously noble
___ 55. warily E. beg
___ 56. magnanimous F. overhanging rock; cliff