The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

____________________________________________________________________________ CD Guide Questions CD settings Length 1a track one 5.39 1b track one @ 5.39 5.01 1c track one @ 10.40 4.75 2a track two 5.40 2b track two @ 5.40 5.82 3a track three 5.40 3b track three @ 5.40 5.87 3c track three @ 11.27 5.82 4a track four 4.04 4b track four @ 4.04 4.04 5a track five 5.20 5b track five @ 5.20 5.20 5c track five @ 10.40 6.17 6 track six 5.13

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Book/CD-Rom Pack by (author) Mark Twain, Jennifer Bassett (Series Editor), (9780194789004) Oxford Bookworms Library, Stage 1… (2008)

1a Tom and his Friends 1. Who was calling Tom?

2. Where did Aunt Polly look first?

3. Where did she look next?

4. What did Tom try to do?

5. What did he have in his pocket?

6. Tom said, “Quick , __________ ____________ ____________”.

7. Was Aunt Polly angry?

8. Tom’s mother was dead. True False

9. What day was it?

10. What was Tom going to do tomorrow?

11. What was the weather like?

12. Was it winter?

13. What was Tom carrying when he came out of the house?

14. What did he look at?

15. Why was Tom the unhappiest boy in the village?

16. After 10 minutes Tom had a ____________ ________________.

17. What did Joe Harper have in his hand?

18. Joe said, “_____ _______ __________, Tom.

19. Tom said, “You call this _______.”

20. “I can go to the _________ any day. I can’t ________ a __________ very

often.”

1b Tom and his Friends

1. How long did Joe watch Tom?

2. Tom painted very ___________ and ____________.

3. He was smiling. True False

4. Joe began to get ______________.

5. What did Joe ask Tom?

6. What did Tom say?

7. Why?

8. At first Joe offered Tom _______ of his apple. Then he offered _____ of it.

9. Did Tom smile when he gave Joe the brush?

10. Was he happy?

11. What did the other boys give Tom?

12. He was the ________ boy in St Petersburg.

13. What did Aunt Polly give Tom?

14. What day was it?

15. Did Tom want to go to school?

16. What did Huckleberry Finn’s father drink all the time?

17. Where did Huck live?

18. Was he happy?

19. What did Huck have?

20. Was Tom afraid of ghosts?

21. Tom said, “Come and meow for me at my window at _______

___________.”

1c Tom and his Friends

1. Tom arrived at school early. True False

2. Was the teacher happy?

3. Why did Tom stop speaking?

4. How long did it take for Tom to fall in love?

5. Where was the empty chair?

6. What was worse than being late for school?

7. What did the teacher take?

8. What did he do to Tom?

9. “Now, Tom Sawyer, you can go and sit with the ___________”.

10. What did some of the children do?

11. What happened after 10 minutes?

12. What was on the table?

13. What did she do?

14. What did Tom do?

15. Then what did Tom do?

16. What did the girl tell Tom to do?

17. The girl said, “I can’t _________ _____________”

18. What did Tom say?

19. When could he do this?

20. Her name was __________ Thatcher.

21. What happened then?

2a In the Graveyard

1. What time did Tom go to bed?

2. What time did Huck’s meow come?

3. How did he leave his bedroom?

4. How far did they have to walk to the graveyard?

5. What did they have with them?

6. When did Hoss Williams die?

7. Huck saw three ________ coming towards them.

8. How did Huck and Tom feel?

9. What were Muff Potter, Injun Joe and Dr Robinson going to do?

10. Why did the doctor want to get a dead body?

11. Who started to dig?

12. How long did it take to open the grave?

13. How much did they want the doctor to pay to take the body to his house?

14. Did the doctor agree?

15. What happened to Injun Joe five years ago?

16. What did the doctor do?

17. What did Injun Joe do?

18. Who began to fight?

2b In the Graveyard

1. It all happened very _______________.

2. The boy’s mouths were closed. True False

3. Who had the knife?

4. Who hit Muff Potter?

5. What happened at the same time as Muff fell to the ground?

6. Do you think the doctor was dead?

7. Did the two boys walk back to the village?

8. What did Injun Joe do?

9. How long was it before Muff Potter woke up?

10. What did Injun Joe ask Muff?

11. Did Muff believe him?

12. Do you believe him?

13. What two things did the Sheriff’s men find?

14. Where did the Sheriff’s men take Muff Potter?

15. How long did he wait for his trial?

16. Tom and Huck were very ______________ and very _____________.

17. “Muff Potter ____________ _________ the doctor. Injun Joe ______ .”

18. They decided not to __________ _____________ about Injun Joe.

3a On Jackson’s Island

1. What came?

2. What did Tom think about in bed at night?

3. Could he talk to anyone about it?

4. What season was it?

5. What were the boys doing?

6. Tom said, “Let’s get _______ _______ ________”.

7. How far south of St Petersburg was Jackson’s Island?

8. How many people lived there?

9. Who else did they invite?

10. What time did they plan to meet?

11. How many boys were in the small boat?

12. What kind of food did they have?

13. What did Huck have?

14. What did they do when they arrived on the island?

15. What did they cook?

16. Was it delicious?

17. Was Tom happy when he woke up the next morning?

18. First the boys had a ___________ in the river.

19. How many fish did they catch?

20. What did they see down the river?

21. What were they looking for?

22. Who were they looking for?

23. Tom said, “ Everybody in St Petersburg feels _________ ______ _____ ”.

3b On Jackson’s Island

1. Did Tom go to sleep that night?

2. Was Tom there when the other boys woke up in the morning?

3. What was Tom doing when they saw him?

4. Where had he been?

5. What had he heard?

6. What day was the funeral going to be held?

7. Who was it for?

8. What do you think Tom’s wonderful idea was?

9. What did the boys have for dinner that night?

10. Who started smoking after dinner?

11. What did the other boys say?

12. Did they like smoking at first?

13. Then what happened?

14. Where were the boys’ families and friends on Sunday morning?

15. What did the minister say about the boys?

16. Everybody __________, especially ___________ ______________ .

17. Suddenly what happened?

18. Aunt Polly __________, and _____________, and ____________ again.

19. After that everyone started _____________ .

20. It was St Petersburg’s _____________ _______________ .

3c On Jackson’s Island

1. After a few weeks, who came to St Petersburg?

2. It was the ______ _________ Muff Potter’s trial.

3. How was Huck feeling?

4. What was he worried about?

5. What was Tom worried about?

6. Did Tom come home early that night?

7. Why couldn’t he sleep for two or three hours?

8. Who was at the trial?

9. What did Muff Potter look like? Give three adjectives.

10. How was the trial going for Muff Potter?

11. Yes, that’s Muff Potter’s __________ .

12. Yes, I saw Muff Potter ____ _____ ____________ ______

______________ .

13. Then what did the judge say?

14. St Petersburg sat up. What does “sat up” mean here?

15. Tom told the truth. True False

16. What colour was Injun Joe’s face?

17. What did he do?

18. Tom was everyone’s favourite boy. True False

19. Why wasn’t Tom happy?

20. Did Injun Joe come back to St Petersburg?

4a Treasure

1. According to the author, what does every boy want to do?

2. What is the best place to look?

3. Who puts it there?

4. Huck said, “I’ve got an old and .” Write the words.

5. How far was it to the tree?

6. How did the boys feel when they arrived?

7. How long did they dig for?

8. Did they find any treasure?

9. Why did they decide to go to the old house?

10. Huck said, “Good for ____________, too.”

11. Did they go upstairs?

12. What did they hear?

13. What did the boys look through?

14. What could they see?

15. What was the Spaniard wearing?

16. What did the other man look like?

17. Was it cold?

18. First the Spaniard took off his __________.

19. What did he take off next?

20. Who was he?

4b Treasure

1. How much money did the men have?

2. How had they got it?

3. How much money were they going to take with them?

4. What did they plan to do with the rest of the money?

5. When did they plan to come back for it?

6. The boys upstairs were excited. Why?

7. What did the men find?

8. What was inside it?

9. Where did they decide to put the money?

10. Why?

11. When were they going to put it there?

12. Did the boys follow them?

13. Why or why not?

14. What did they want to find?

15. What did the boys think about all week?

16. Who did they watch?

17. “but they didn’t see a _______________ and they didn’t find the

________________”.

5a In the Cave

1. When was Becky Thatcher’s birthday?

2. Why were all her friends excited?

3. What were they going to do?

4. Where did they go?

5. Were there any parents?

6. What did they use for light?

7. Were some of the children afraid to go into the cave at first?

8. McDougal’s Cave was rather small. True False

9. How long did the children play in the tunnels and rooms?

10. How did they get back to St. Petersburg?

11. Why didn’t Huck go to birthday parties?

12. What was he interested in that night?

13. Where was Injun Joe?

14. Where was Huck waiting?

15. What happened at midnight?

16. How long did Huck wait in the cold street?

17. Who found Huck in the morning?

18. How long did he stay in bed?

19. He was very _______ .

20. Where were Tom and Becky?

5b In the Cave

1. What did Tom and Becky do at first?

2. Then what did Tom want to do?

3. Did Becky go with him?

4. The children walked and ____________.

5. When they went into the large room, how many bats did they see?

6. When Becky’s candle went out, what did the children do?

7. Suddenly, it was __________, ___________, _____________ .

8. Why couldn’t they go back through the big room?

9. Did Becky start to cry?

10. Finally they understood they were ________ .

11. The children ____________ and ________________.

12. What did they do when they were tired?

13. They didn’t know if it was _______ _______ __________.

14. They had no food, but they had to find ___________ .

15. They found a very small _________ and sat down next to it.

16. Becky was afraid that they would ______ in the tunnels.

17. What day was it?

18. Suddenly what did they hear?

19. Slowly they went back ___ ______ ____________.

5c In the Cave

1. When they woke up, they were __________, ___________ ______________.

2. What was Tom’s idea?

3. What did he see away to his right?

4. What did he call out?

5. Who was it?

6. Did Tom tell Becky who he had seen?

7. What evening was it?

8. Were many people looking for the children?

9. Why was there a sudden noise in the street later that evening?

10. Who came to listen to the story?

11. How many tunnels had Tom tried?

12. What could he see?

13. How did Tom and Becky get back to the village?

14. How far from the mouth of the cave were they?

15. How long had they been in the cave?

16. How long did Tom stay in bed?

17. What day did he go and see Huck?

18. Why couldn’t Tom tell Huck about Injun Joe?

19. Where was Tom about two weeks after the picnic?

20. What did Mr Thatcher say about the cave?

21. What did Tom tell Mr Thatcher?

22. How many men were at the cave one hour later?

23. Who did they find?

24. Was he dead or alive?

6 Under the cross

1. What happened the day after Injun Joe’s funeral?

2. What were Tom and Huck doing?

3. What did Tom tell Huck about?

4. Huck said, “We’re never going to _______ _____ ________ _______”.

5. Tom knew where the money was. Where?

6. What did they decide to do?

7. How did they get there?

8. How many miles down the river did they go?

9. Where was the hole?

10. Was the hole very big?

11. Tom said, “Look Huck, ____________ ______ ________”.

12. Could they see the box of money?

13. What did they find under the wall?

14. What did they find in the small room? (4 things)

15. Whose house did the boys take the treasure to?

16. Who was there?

17. How much money was in the box?

18. Who were the richest people in St Petersburg?

19. Did everybody live happily ever after?

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Answers Chapter 1a Tom and his Friends (track one, 0.00)

1. Aunt Polly 2. under the bed 3. in the garden 4. run out the door 5. an apple 6. look behind you 7. no She was laughing. 8. True 9. Friday 10. work 11. a beautiful day 12. no Summer. 13. a brush and a big pot of white paint 14. the fence 15. he had to work for hours 16. wonderful idea 17. an apple 18. I am sorry. 19. work 20. river paint fence

Chapter 1b Tom and his Friends (track one, 5.39)

1. 5 minutes 2. slowly carefully 3. True 4. interested 5. Can I paint a little? 6. no 7. because maybe Joe wasn’t good at painting 8. some all 9. no 10. yes 11. three balls, an old knife, a cat with one eye,

an old blue bottle and other exciting things 12. richest 13. an apple 14. Monday 15. no 16. whisky 17. In the streets 18. Yes

Chapter 1c Tom and his Friends (track one, 10.40)

1. False 2. no 3. There was a beautiful new girl in the room. 4. two seconds 5. next to the new girl 6. talking to Huckleberry Finn 7. his stick 8. He beat him. 9. girls 10. laugh 11. the girl looked up 12. an apple 13. She put the apple back on Tom’s half of the

table. 14. put it back in front of her 15. drew a picture of a house 16. draw a man 17. draw pictures 18. I can teach you 19. after school 20. Becky 21. The teacher took hold of his ear and moved

him back to the boys’ side of the room. Chapter 2a In the Graveyard (track 2, 0.00)

1. half past nine 2. eleven o’clock 3. the window 4. a mile 5. the dead cat 6. last week 7. ghosts 8. very afraid 9. rob a grave 10. to cut up and learn about it 11. Injun Joe and Muff Potter 12. 10 minutes 13. $5 more 14. no 15. went to the doctor’s house but the doctor

didn’t give him any food when he asked

19. a dead cat 20. He said, “Of course not.” 21. eleven o’clock

Chapter 2b In the Graveyard (track 2, 5.40)

1. quickly 2. False 3. Injun Joe 4. the doctor 5. Injun Joe knifed the doctor in the back 6. yes or no 7. No. They ran. 8. put the knife into Muff’s hand 9. five minutes 10. that he had killed the doctor 11. yes 12. no or yes 13. the doctor’s body and Muff Potter’s knife 14. jail 15. four weeks 16. unhappy afraid 17. didn’t kill did 18. tell anyone

Chapter 3a On Jackson’s Island (track 3, 0.00)

1. the summer holidays 2. Injun Joe’s face 3. no 4. summer 5. fishing and talking 6. away from here 7. three miles 8. none 9. Huck Finn 10. midnight 11. three 12. bread and meat 13. pipe 14. made a fire under a big old tree 15. meat 16. yes 17. yes 18. swim 19. about six 20. 20 or more boats 21. a dead body 22. the boys

16. He hit Injun Joe. 17. fell to the ground 18. the doctor and Muff Potter

Chapter 3b On Jackson’s Island (track 3, 5.40)

1. no 2. no 3. swimming across to the island 4. home 5. interesting things/about own funeral 6. Sunday 7. the three boys 8. go their own funeral 9. fish 10. Huck 11. Can we smoke too? 12. yes 13. they got sick 14. in the Church 15. very nice things 16. cried, Becky Thatcher 17. The three dead boys came into the Church 18. cried, laughed, cried 19. singing 20. happiest funeral

Chapter 3c On Jackson’s Island (track 3, 11.27)

1. the judge 2. day before 3. unhappy 4. telling about Injun Joe, Injun Joe killing

them 5. Muff Potter dying 6. no 7. He was excited. 8. all the village and Injun Joe 9. tired, old, dirty (face) 10. badly 11. knife 12. in the village that afternoon 13. call Thomas Sawyer 14. became very interested 15. True 16. white 17. jumped out the window and ran away 18. True 19. He was afraid Injun Joe would come back

23. sorry for us Chapter 4a Treasure (track 4, 0.00)

1. dig for treasure 2. under an old tree 3. robbers 4. pick, shovel 5. three miles 6. tired and hot 7. an hour or two 8. no 9. Old houses are always good for treasure. 10. ghosts 11. yes 12. a noise 13. holes in the floor 14. two men, one the old Spaniard 15. a green hat 16. small and dark 17. no It was hot. 18. hat 19. his long white hair 20. Injun Joe

Chapter 4b Treasure (track 4, 4.04)

1. $650 2. They robbed a house. 3. $50 4. leave it in the house 5. next week 6. They’d found treasure. 7. a box 8. thousands of dollars 9. under the cross 10. nobody goes there 11. that night 12. no 13. afraid of Injun Joe 14. that cross 15. treasure 16. the Spaniard

20. no Chapter 5a In the Cave (track 5, 0.00)

1. next Saturday 2. birthday party 3. picnic by the river and visit McDougal’s

Cave. 4. down the river 5. no 6. candles 7. yes 8. False 9. hours 10. by boat 11. The mothers didn’t like him. 12. treasure 13. in an old building by the river 14. in the street near the building 15. it began to rain. 16. all night 17. Mrs Douglas, a woman from the Church 18. two weeks 19. ill 20. in the cave

Chapter 5b In the Cave (track 5, 5.20)

1. played with their friends in the cave 2. go down a new tunnel. 3. yes 4. talked 5. hundreds 6. ran and ran through the tunnels 7. very, very quiet 8. because of the bats 9. yes 10. lost 11. walked and walked 12. sat down 13. day or night 14. water 15. river 16. die

17. cross, treasure Chapter 5c In the Cave (track 5, 10.35)

1. very, very hungry 2. use his ball of string 3. a hand with a candle 4. help 5. Injun Joe 6. no 7. Tuesday 8. yes 9. Becky and Tom had come back 10. most of the village 11. six 12. daylight 13. by boat 14. five miles 15. three days 16. two days 17. Sunday 18. Mrs Douglas was always in the room. 19. in Becky’s house 20. There are big doors across the cave mouth. 21. Injun Joe’s in the cave 22. fifty 23. Injun Joe 24. dead

17. They didn’t know. 18. somebody calling 19. to their river

Chapter 6 Under the cross (track 6, 0.00)

1. Huck was out of bed 2. walking and talking 3. the picnic, the cave, and Injun Joe 4. find the money now 5. in the cave 6. go and find the money 7. by boat 8. eight miles 9. behind some trees 10. no 11. there’s the cross 12. no 13. a second, smaller tunnel 14. a bed, two whiskey bottles, some old shoes

and the box of money 15. Aunt Polly’s house 16. everybody 17. $12,000 18. Tom and Huck 19. What do you think?