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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to what Huck tells the King and the Duke, where did his parents come from?
(a) Pike County in Missouri.
(b) Carp County in Illinois.
(c) Orange County in California.
(d) Pike County in Illinois.

2. What does the King do after his confession?
(a) He retired to the wigwam with a bottle.
(b) He goes for a cleansing swim, symbolic of beginning a new life.
(c) He cries.
(d) He tells jokes till everyone is asleep.

3. What explanation does Huck give for having the gun in his hands?
(a) He tells his father someone was trying to break into the cabin.
(b) He tells his father he was being helpful by cleaning the gun.
(c) He says he was checking to see if it was loaded.
(d) He says he was about to go and shoot a wild hog.

4. What excuse does Huck give the King for his flight from the cemetery?
(a) He needed to get away from the crowds.
(b) He claims he was warned he could be hanged.
(c) He was worried about Jim all alone on the raft.
(d) He was worried about Joanna and wanted to find her.

5. Why does Huck take a canoe up a 'chute' in Chapter 19?
(a) To evade Pappy.
(b) To find some berries.
(c) To steal a chicken.
(d) To find Jim.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many logs worth selling do Pap and Huck find?

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

3. Why is Huck worried when the coffin lid is screwed on?

4. Why do the murderers defer leaving in the skiff?

5. Why are the streets of the 'one horse town' empty?

(see the answer key)

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