Read the passage. Then answer the questions.
At half-past nine that night, Tom and Sid were went to bed as usual. They said
their prayers, and Sid was soon asleep. Tom lay awake and waited in restless
impatience. When it seemed to him that it must be nearly daylight, he heard the
clock strike ten! This was despair. He would have tossed and fidgeted, as his
nerves demanded, but he was afraid he might wake Sid. So he lay still and stared
up into the dark. Everything was dismally still. By-and-by, out of the stillness
little, scarcely perceptible noises began to emphasize themselves. The ticking of
the clock began to bring itself into notice. Old beams began to crack
mysteriously. The stairs creaked faintly. Evidently spirits were abroad. A
measured, muffled snore issued from Aunt Poly’s chamber. And now the
tiresome chirping of a cricket that no human ingenuity could locate began. Next
the ghastly ticking of a death-watch in the wall at the bed’s head made Tom
shudder- it meant that somebody’s days were numbered. Then the howl of a faroff dog rose on the night air and was answered by a fainter howl from a remoter
distance. Tom was in an agony. At last he was satisfied that time has ceased and
eternity begun; he began to doze in spite of himself, the clock chimed eleven, but
he did not hear it, and then there came, mingling with his half formed dreams, a
most melancholy caterwauling. The raising of a neighbouring window disturbed
him. A cry of ‘Scat! You devil!’ and the crash of an empty bottle against the back
of his aunt’s wood-shed brought him wide awake and a single minute later he was
dressed and out of the window and creeping along the roof of the ‘ell’ on all
fours. He ‘meow’d’ with caution once or twice as he went; then jump to the roof of
the wood-shed and thence to the ground. Huckleberry Finn was there, with his
dead cat. The boys moved off and disappeared in the gloom. At the end of half an
hour they were wading through the tall grass of the graveyard.
Answer the questions.
1. What is the main idea of the passage?
2. Underline five sentences in the passage that support the idea.
3. Write a summary. Tell what is the most important.
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