Analytical Reader

First chapter.

Read the following part of Tom Sawyer

Tom walked along the street, whistling like a bird. Then he stopped whistling. He had met a stranger, a boy a little larger than he was.

The boy’s clothes were new and good, and he was wearing shoes.

Tom would wear shoes and good clothes like these only to church on

Sunday. Tom looked and looked. The boy’s clothes seemed to become better and better, and his own clothes seemed to grow poorer.

Neither boy spoke. If one moved, then the other moved. But they

moved only to the side, in a circle. They remained face to face and eye

to eye. Then Tom said:

“I can beat you!”

“Try.”

“I can.”

“No, you can’t.”

“Yes, I can.”

“No, you can’t.”

“I can.”

“You can’t.”

“Can!”

“Can’t!”

A moment of quiet. Then Tom said:

“I could beat you with one hand.”

“

Do it. You say you can do it.”

“That hat!”

“Hit it off my head if you can.”

“I will.”

“You are afraid.”

“I am not afraid.”

“You are.”

“I am not.”

“You are.”

More moving in a circle. Now they were shoulder to shoulder, each trying to make the other fall back. And then suddenly they were both rolling in the dust. Each pulled at the other’s hair, and each hit the other’s nose.

Based on the last text, answer with True (T) or false (F) the following sentences:

1.      Tom found a boy younger than him. (    )

2.      Tom was singing while she showered. (    )

3.      The boy that Tom found was talking with a friend about what he could do. (    )

4.      Tom was wearing clothes to go a church. (    )

5.      The stranger wore old and normal clothes. (    )

6.      Tom and the stranger were fighting. (    )

7.      Tom walked by the street and then he found the stranger (    )