Question

Answer the following questions within fifteen words:
(1) Which one of Tom's tooth had come loose?
(2) How are Sid and Mary related to Tom?
(3) Why did Tom ask Sid not to stir him?
(4) Why did Tom pretend his toe was paining?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. Sid was panic stricken when he saw his half-brother Tom groaning and moaning in pain. He rushed downstairs to Aunt Polly and told her to rush to Tom immediately as Tom was dying.

Aunt Polly initially brushed it aside as rubbish but nevertheless she rushed upstairs to see Tom and was panic stricken for a while to see the boy tossing in pain. For a while her blood turned cold.

2. Tom had cooked up a story to escape from going to school. He had decided to fool his Aunt by saying that his toe was mortified as he had once heard a doctor talking of such an ailment.

However he was not sure of the details so when he told his Aunt of this his Aunt burst out laughing. This made Tom feel a little foolish.

Aunt Polly told Tom that he had initially given her a shock. He should stop all the nonsense and get out of it. Tom should get ready for school.

3. When Tom's next excuse was of his loose tooth that was giving him a tooth ache, Aunt Polly decided to pull it out.

4. Aunt Polly helped Tom get rid of his tooth by asking Mary to get her a silk thread, and a chunk of fire out of the kitchen.

She then most dexterously fastened one end of the silk thread to Tom's tooth by making a loop while the other end she tied to the bedpost. Then she caught hold of the chunk of fire and all of a sudden thrust it as if into the boy's face. The tooth was extracted and it hung dangling by the bedpost.

Reference to context

1. The given words were spoken by Aunt Polly to Tom Sawyer. She said these words when she rushed into Tom's room after being informed by Sid of Tom's ailing condition.

2. Tom pretended to be in great pain and answered that his sore toe was mortified.

3. Aunt Polly saw through Tom's lie. She did not believe a word of what he said and rubbished it as nonsense.

4. Tom was a truant. He was an extremely naughty boy and looked for all kinds opportunities to escape from going to school. He preferred to go out with his friend Huckleberry Finn, fishing and being up to all kinds of mischief.    

Answer 2

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1. Aunt poli tied a threat around toms loose tooth and pulled it to get the loose tooth.
2. Sid Sawyer

Tom's whiny half-brother, who also lives with Aunt Polly and Mary. He behaves well but enjoys getting Tom into trouble and tattles on Tom

3. Suddenly he found one of his teeth is loose and he tried to uproot it to make a good cause of not going to school. As he tried to do so, the situation worsened, and he was in pain. ... Tom was in great pain, and any movement made his pain more. So he asked Sid not to stir him.

4. Tom decided to pretend to have great pain with his sore toe because he had heard the doctor talking about a disease that could make one lose his finger. With this, he believed that Aunt Polly would be scared and sympathetic with him.......☺