The Devil and Tom Walker

Tom and his wife are unhappy because they......?

• Work too much

• fight about money

• have no children

• live in the woods

What is the author making a satire of in the following passage? "Tom was hard-minded fellow, not easily daunted, and he had lived so long with a termagant wife that he did not fear the devil."

• the devil

• Tom

• wives

• fear

Tom Begins praying and reading the Bible because he.....

• Wants to escape the devil

• Feels bad about cheating people

• Finds good friends who love him

• Thinks God can give him more money

The author most likely uses the image of Tom's green spectacles to show that Tom is....

• Concerned about the afterlife

• afraid of the devil's appearance

• jealous of other people's wives

• greedy and obsessed with wealth

What does the devil do to Tom at the end of the tale?

• hides Tom's wealth in the woods

• encourages Tom's faith in God

• meets Tom at the church

• Carries Tom away on a horse

What does propitious mean?

• delightful

• adventures

• favorable

• supporting

A censurer is someone who....

• criticizes harshly

• prays loudly

• makes bad deals

• never shares

What convinces Tom that what the devil had said to him in the swamp was true?

• the disappearance of Tom's wife

• the discovery of Kidd's treasure

• Absalom Crowinshield's death

• Tom's growing business

Tom is so successful at working for the devil because Tom....

• is greedier than the devil

• is the only moneylender in Bosten

• Knows a lot about lending money

• is known for his bargain with the devil

The narrator describes the devil's face as "begrimed with soot, as if he had been accustomed to toil among fires and forges." Irving most likely chose this imagery because of what?

• He wanted to contrast Tom and the devil

• It increased the dark mood of the scene

• People know this is what the devil looks like

• His readers can identify with a life of toil