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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 42.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the stranger from Hicksville?
(a) Harvey Wilks.
(b) Judge Thatcher.
(c) Tom Sawyer.
(d) Huckleberry Finn.

2. What forms the basis of the humorous conversation in Chapter 14?
(a) Huck telling Jim more tall stories.
(b) Jim's accent.
(c) Huck's garbled retelling of matter he has just read about.
(d) Huck's American vernacular.

3. Why does Huck say in Chapter 32 that he needs to make a trip to town?
(a) To exercise the horse.
(b) To collect his baggage.
(c) To meet another steamboat.
(d) To collect money.

4. Who works out that Jim is confined in the ash hopper?
(a) Silas Marner.
(b) Tom Sawyer.
(c) Huck Finn.
(d) Harney Shepherdson.

5. What first alerts Mrs. Loftus to the fact that 'Sarah/Mary' is a boy?
(a) She sees that he has some fuzz on his cheeks and chin.
(b) He doesn't walk daintily in a dress.
(c) His fingernails are dirty.
(d) Huck does not thread a needle in a feminine way.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Tom and Huck become rich?

2. What is Tom's reaction when he hears that there are men with guns after the gang?

3. Why is Jim initially confused about getting a coat-of-arms?

4. Which encores does the Duke suggest Chapter 21?

5. Why is Huck feeling "mean and miserable" in Chapter 15?

(see the answer key)

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