What conflict, or problem, does Tom Sawyer face in the story?

a He has to whitewash a fence and does not want to.

b He has to stop his friends from painting his fence. B He has to whitewash a fence and does not want to. C He has to convince Ben Rogers to act like a riverboat. D He has to find enough work for his friends to do.

c He has to stop his friends from painting his fence. B He has to whitewash a fence and does not want to. C He has to convince Ben Rogers to act like a riverboat. D He has to find enough work for his friends to do.

d He has to stop his friends from painting his fence.

The correct answer is A: He has to whitewash a fence and does not want to.

Explanation:

One morning, Aunt Polly asks Tom to whitewash a fence. Tom does not want to do it, and he tries to convince Jim to do it instead of him when Aunt Polly arrives and says Tom has to do it by himself. However, Tom manages to convince another boy, Ben Rogers, to do it instead of him. Ben accepts and gives Tom an apple in exchange because Tom convinced him that whitewashing a fence is a task only for privileged boys.

By the end of the day, the fence is whitewashed and Tom gets a lot of different things from each boy who tried to whitewash a fence.