The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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SHORT ANSWER STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS
Chapters 9-12
1. Identify Injun Joe, Muff Potter, and Dr. Robinson.
2. Why did Huck and Tom decide to keep mum about the graveyard incident?
3. How did Aunt Polly know that Tom had gone out in the middle of the night?
4. Why did the school master let out school?
5. How did Tom try to keep from talking in his sleep?
6. Why did Tom bring things to Muff Potter in jail?
7. Why did the villagers not tar and feather Injun Joe?
8. What happened to Peter the cat?
Vocabulary - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Chapters 9-12
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.
18.The boys talked little, and only under their breath, for the time and the place and the pervading
solemnity and silence oppressed their spirits.
19. Tom's reflections grew oppressive.
20. The moon drifted from behind the clouds and exposed the pallid face.
21. They glanced backward over their shoulders from time to time, apprehensively, as if they feared
they might be followed.
22. Then they separated, cogitating.
23. It seemed to Tom that his schoolmates never would get done holding inquests on dead cats, and
thus keeping his trouble present to his mind.
24. Then he went tearing around the house again spreading chaos and destruction in his path.
Part II: Determining the Meaning: Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions.
___ 18. pervading A. judicial inquiry into the cause of a death
___ 19. oppressive B. disorder; confusion
___ 20. pallid C. anxiously
___ 21. apprehensively D. pale, dull, lifeless
___ 22. cogitating E. thinking
___ 23. inquests F. present throughout
___ 24. chaos G. difficult to bear