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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 | Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Huck and Jim leave the baby's bottle in the house?
(a) It is broken.
(b) It is too small to use as a water bottle.
(c) They think it contains poison.
(d) It contains sour milk and would be diffficult to clean.

2. How does Jim react when he first sees Huck in Chapter 8?
(a) He's relieved and happy Huck is alive.
(b) He thinks Huck is the Devil and is desperately afraid.
(c) He's angry and afraid of being discovered.
(d) He's frightened as he genuinely believes Huck is a ghost.

3. Which of these statements is closest to a description of Huck's father?
(a) He has wide lips, shaggy hair and very bad breath.
(b) He has a white face, long greasy beard and dark black eyes.
(c) He has a ghostly white face, dribbles through broken teeth and has eyes that once might have been intelligent.
(d) He has a brutal face with a broken nose and a big scar on his left cheek.

4. Why are Huck and Jim unable to land the catfish they caught?
(a) The fish pulls Jim into the water and he has to be rescued.
(b) The fish is too enormous for them to handle.
(c) The line breaks.
(d) The hook comes adrift.

5. Whose idea of the after-life does Huck favor?
(a) Tom Sawyer's.
(b) Miss Watson's.
(c) The widow's.
(d) His father's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Huck go to cook his supper in Chapter 8?

2. How does Huck's practical joke on Jim backfire?

3. What idea is it that Huck and his friends don't fully understand [when forming their gang and making plans]?

4. Why is his father annoyed with Huck in Chapter 5?

5. Name the figurative language used in "the wind was trying to whisper something to me."

(see the answer key)

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