Tom Sawyer: Preguntas y Respuestas sobre la Novela de Mark Twain para Estudiar Inglés

Tom Sawyer: Preguntas y Respuestas de Comprensión Lectora

A continuación encontrarás una serie de preguntas sobre la novela The Adventures of Tom Sawyer de Mark Twain, junto con sus respectivas respuestas. Este material es ideal para practicar la comprensión lectora en inglés.

Capítulos iniciales

1. What did Tom dislike about the new boy in town?
He looked like a boy in the town.

2. How did Tom manage to make his friends help him paint the fence?
He acted as if painting the fence was art, instead of work.

3. What did Becky do to show her interest in Tom when she first saw him?
She threw a flower over the wall to him.

4. Sunday school...?
They all wanted to show off in front of him.

5. Explain exactly how Polly pulled Tom's tooth.
She tied one end of a piece of thread to his tooth and the other end to the bed. Then she pushed a piece of hot firewood towards him. He moved away in fright, and the thread pulled his loose tooth out as he did so.

6. Why was Becky angry with Tom so soon after?
Because Tom told her he had been engaged before.

7. How did Dr. ... die in the graveyard?
Injun Joe pushed a knife into Dr. Robinson's heart.

8. What was the promise that Tom and Huck made to each other?
They promised never to tell anyone what they had seen in the graveyard that night.

9. Why was Muff Potter immediately arrested for the murder of the doctor?
Muff Potter's knife was found next to the dead body.

10. Why did Aunt Polly give Tom pain-killer?
She was trying to cure Tom of his strange illness.

11. What made Tom and Joe decide to leave home and become pirates?
They were both in trouble at home and felt lonely and friendless.

La isla y la aventura

12. How did the boys feed ... island?
They had stolen food from their homes and caught fish on the island.

13. How did Tom return from the island to the Missouri bank of the river?
He swam to the ferry port and hid away on the ferry. When he returned, he took the skiff belonging to the guard on the ferry-boat and swam the last few yards to the island.

14. How did Tom persuade Joe and Huck not to leave the island?
He told them about his plan to surprise everyone at the funeral, which he knew would be held for the boys.

15. What did the minister blame himself for at the boys' funeral?
He blamed himself for only seeing their faults and for sometimes beating them.

16. What was Tom's dream?
Everything he had seen and heard from under the bed when his Aunt was talking to Mrs Harper.

El juicio y la cueva

17. What did Alfred Temple do with a bottle of ink?
He spilled it on Tom's book.

18. What did Harper tell Polly?
Harper told Polly that Tom had planned to go to church in the middle of the funeral.

19. How did Becky know that Tom was going to be in serious trouble?
Because she knew that Tom was going to be blamed for spilling the bottle of ink.

20. What reasons did Tom and Huck have for waiting to help Potter?
They wanted to help Potter because he had been very kind to them.

21. Why were the bones of a cat an important piece of evidence in Potter's favor?
They proved that Tom was right about what had happened in the graveyard.

22. Why did Huck not have the same cause to fear Injun Joe as Tom had?
Because Joe didn't know that Huck was with Tom that night.

23. Where do you think Tom got all his ideas about hidden treasure?
Tom got all his ideas about hidden treasure from some adventure stories he had read.

24. What explanation did the boys produce for the failure of their midnight dig?
They wanted to see where the shadow of a big branch fell at midnight.

25. What mistake did the boys make before they started to explore the haunted house?
They left a bag with things for digging in the room, so Joe thought that there was someone in the house.

26. Who had hidden the box of gold pieces? Why had they not returned to pick it up?
Murrel's gang had hidden the box of gold pieces.

27. Why do you think Tom did not like to be seen with ... ?
Because somebody could think that he had been with Tom in the graveyard that night.

28. What shocked ... two?
He saw Joe drunk on the floor.

29. What happened to take Tom's attention from Joe?
The judge and his family came back and Tom and Becky were playing.

El final de la historia

30. Why did Huck follow the two men?
He followed the two men because he thought that they were moving the treasure.

31. Why did Huck refuse to take the credit for his brave actions?
Because Joe could find out and take his revenge on him.

32. When did the family realize Tom and Becky were missing?
The day after the picnic. Mr. Thatcher and Polly thought that they were sleeping at Mrs. Harper's house.

33. Who did Tom meet unexpectedly in the cave?
Tom met Injun Joe.

34. How was Tom able to find a way out of the cave at last?
Tom saw some light at the end of a passage.

35. What was Joe's number two under the cross?
It was a cross on a big rock.

36. How did Tom surprise Mrs. Douglas's guests?
He produced bags of gold coins.

37. Why didn't Huck enjoy his comfortable ... return to her?
Because he had to wear shoes and smart clothes and behave well. Tom told him that Huck wouldn't be in his gang of pirates if he didn't learn to read and be smart.