Read the passage from Tom Sawyer. "Hang the boy, can’t I never learn anything? Ain’t he played me tricks enough like that for me to be looking out for him by this time? But old fools is the biggest fools there is. Can’t learn an old dog new tricks, as the saying is. But my goodness, he never plays them alike, two days, and how is a body to know what's coming? He ’pears to know just how long he can torment me before I get my dander up, and he knows if he can make out to put me off for a minute or make me laugh, it’s all down again and I can't hit him a lick.” Based on the passage, what are the best ways to describe Tom Sawyer’s character? Choose three correct answers.
Tom is cunning because he knows how to delay the speaker and make her laugh so she will not punish him. His tricks are amusing enough to make her laugh, and repeatedly playing tricks on her shows that he is mischievous. The passage does not suggest that Tom is naive or vicious.
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