The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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SHORT ANSWER STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS
Chapters 5-8
1. Why did Tom sit next to the aisle in church?
2. Why had Tom enjoyed this Sunday's sermon?
3. Why did Tom sometimes wish that there were no weekend?
4. Why was Tom the center of attention at school the next day?
5. Identify Huck Finn.
6. What are dead cats good for?
7. Next to whom did Tom have to sit, and what did his note to her say?
8. What did Joe and Tom play with during the lessons?
9. What did Tom and Becky do at school during recess?
10. Why did Becky get mad at Tom?
11. What did Tom decide to be?
12. On what did Tom blame the unsuccessful marble spell?
Vocabulary - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Chapters 5 - 8
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.
9. . . . closed with the supplication that the words he was about to speak might find grace and favor,
and be as seed sown in fertile ground, yielding in time a grateful harvest of good.
10. So he went to the beetle and began a wary attack on it again . . . .
11. He generally began that day with wishing he had had no intervening holiday, it made the going into
captivity and fetters again so much more odious.
12. The groans ceased and the pain vanished from the toe.
13. His heart was heavy, and he said with a disdain which he did not feel, the it wasn't anything to spit
like Tom Sawyer . . . .
14. Tom partly uncovered a dismal caricature of a house with two gable ends to it and a corkscrew of
smoke issuing from the chimney.
15. Tom was swimming in bliss.
16. So she sat down to cry again and upbraid herself. . . .
17. No--better still, he would . . . sear the eyeballs of all his companions with unappeasable envy.
Part II: Determining the Meaning: Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions.
___ 9. supplication A. stopped
___ 10. wary B. arousing a strong dislike or displeasure
___ 11. odious C. cautious
___ 12. ceased D. burn; scorch
___ 13. disdain E. extreme happiness
___ 14. caricature F. reprimand
___ 15. bliss G. contempt
___ 16. upbraid H. drawing in which the subject's distinctive traits are exaggerated
___ 17. sear