View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What calamity befalls Huck and Jim at the end of Chapter 16?
(a) The raft is destroyed in a collision with a large steamboat.
(b) The raft is destroyed as they ride over some rapids.
(c) The raft drifts off by itself and is lost.
(d) The canoe is stolen.

2. What separates Jim and Huck in the fog?
(a) Huck loses his lantern and Jim can't see him.
(b) A large island.
(c) Some rapids.
(d) A quarrel over food.

3. Who is the other person Huck tells Mary Jane in Chapter 28 would be in big trouble?
(a) Joanna.
(b) Jim.
(c) Tom Sawyer.
(d) Harney Shepherdson.

4. What sociable activity do Jim and the boys share in Chapter 36?
(a) Telling stories.
(b) Smoking corncob pipes.
(c) Chewing tobacco and telling stories.
(d) Eating.

5. Huck's narrative includes the words: "but I was over the shoal water now." This is an example of what sort of figurative language?
(a) Personification.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Exaggeration.
(d) Simile.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who suggests telling Uncle Harvey about Mary Jane and the mumps?

2. What time is it when the boys become too tired to carry on?

3. With the case-knives not working, what does Tom then choose for digging tools?

4. How do Huck and Tom exit the house in Chapter 36?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 256 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample