Penguin Readers Answer key

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Level 1 – Beginner
Answers to Book Activities Answers to Factsheet Activities
Chapters 1–6 Communicative Activities
Before you read Open answers
1 a Open answers Student’s Activities
b aunt – family Activities before reading the book
church – Sunday
fence – yard 1 Open answers
graveyard – dead 2 (a) Samuel Clemens
medicine – sick
(b) Hannibal, Mississippi River

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

paint – picture
trial – police (c) boats
c kill (d) newspaper
tore (e) home, cave
help
Activities while reading the book
After you read
2 a Because he didn’t go to school Chapters 1–4
today. 1 (a) Tom’s friends painted the fence.
b Because they are very sad. Tom is (b) She was surprised and happy.
sad because Becky doesn’t like (c) They didn’t like him.
him. Joe is sad because his mother
is angry with him. (d) Injun Joe killed the doctor.
c Because she is angry with him. (e) He gave it to the cat.
d Because he’s always friendly to (f) Tom stayed quiet under the bed.
them. Because he didn’t kill the
doctor. 2 (a) Ben, to Tom
e Because he can kill them, too. (b) Huck, to Tom
(c) Tom’s teacher, to Tom
Chapters 7–13 (d) Tom, to Becky
Before you read (e) Tom, to Joe Harper
3 Open answers ( f ) Aunt Polly, to her friends
4 Possible answers: 3–4 Open answers
a shoes
b dark Chapters 5–8
c wrong
d a knife 1 (a) Amy
e open answer (b) Alfred
After you read (c) Becky
(d) Tom
5 a three – Saturday, Sunday, and
Monday (e) Becky, Tom
b Because of Tom and Becky’s 2 Open answers
adventure. They don’t want
children in the cave. 3 (a) old houses
c He washes every day. He goes to (b) He wants to put his money there.
school and church. (c) He finds a lot of money in a box.
6 a at the old house near Mrs. (d) No, it isn’t.
Douglas’s house (e) to the place under the cross.
b at church (f) He wants to kill them.
c in the cave
d at Mrs. Douglas’s house 4 Susy Harper’s house
7–8 Open answers Chapters 9–13
1 The correct order is:
(b), (a), (c), (e), (f), (g), (d)
2 (a) Because he sees Injun Joe.
(b) He sees light.
(c) They put it in small bags.
(d) Because he is a good boy. He
helped her. She likes him.
(e) Because he likes his old life. He
doesn’t like washing, school, or
church.
Activities after reading the book
1–2 Open answers

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Factsheet written by Jane Rollason
Factsheet series developed by Louise James