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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT TOM WALKER EXAM
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-Guarantee passing score -17 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: The black man insists that if he allows Tom to have the money, he should do a certain thing with it- Tom refuses to do this thing. What is it?
Answer:
He refuses to fit out a slave ship.
Question 2: What things did Tom Walker do to show off his new fortune?
Answer:
a new carraige Question 3: What does Tom finally agree to do with the money, if the black man allows him to have it?
Answer:
He agrees to become a userer.
Question 4: What did Tom eventually do to anyone who he loaned money to?
Answer:
left them dry as a sponge
Question 5: What fateful lines did Tom utter which brought the end of his life?
Answer:
He said, "The devil take me if I have made a farthing." Question 6: When Tom returned to the swamp to talk to the black man, what was the black man's attitude?
Answer:
The black man was demanding Tom was accepting and obedient.
Question 7: Why did Tom always carry a Bible in his coat pocket?
Answer:
He always carried a Bible in his coat pocket so that the devil wouldn't take him.Question 8: What does the answer to question #25 reveal about Tom's character?And what does this reveal about the author, Washington Irving's views?
Answer:
He has a bit of a conscionce, Washington Irving agrees.Question 9: After finishing the story, what tone do you think prevails- is it comic, frightening, sarcastic, bitter, or something else? Use examples from the story to support your answer.
Answer:
Frightening, bitter, his reaction to his wife's disappearence is an example of this, along with his deal with the devil.
Question 10: What happened to Tom as he began to grow old and thoughtful?
Answer:
He was anxious about what awaits him in the afterlife, he regrets making the deal with the black man.
Question 11: What happened to Tom's money, horses, and house in the end?
Answer:
His horses starved, and his house burned.
Question 12: What seems to be the lesson that this story is teaching?
Answer:
Don't make deals with the devil?
Question 13: What is Tom's life like after he gets the money from the black man?
Answer:
wealthy, full of regret
Question 14: Describe how the black man took Tom away.
Answer:
He whisked him like a child into the saddle and galloped away in the midst of a thunderstorm. He took him away very suddenly and dramatically.
Question 15: What kind of customers did Tom attract?
Answer:
the desperate
Question 16: Whom does the narrator address directly in the last paragraph?
Answer:
The narrator addresses the reader.Question 17: What is the "condition which need not be mentioned, being generally understood in all cases where the decil grants favors" mentioned by the narrarator.
Answer:
The money found by his means should be employed in his service.