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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17 | Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What action does Jim fear will bring bad luck?
(a) Falling over a black cat.
(b) Spitting into the wind.
(c) Touching a snake's skin.
(d) Pulling floating bread from the river.

2. What is the oracle that Jim consults?
(a) A chicken's liver.
(b) The way a toad reacts when it is prodded with a stick.
(c) A hairball.
(d) A crystal ball.

3. How does Huck's practical joke on Jim backfire?
(a) Huck is bitten by a rattlesnake.
(b) Jim is so angry that he attacks Huck.
(c) Jim turns the tables by putting live coals in Huck's bed.
(d) Jim is bitten by an actual snake.

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

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. Why do Huck and Jim leave the baby's bottle in the house?

2. What forms the basis of the humorous conversation in Chapter 14?

3. What convinces the ferry captain to investigate the sinking ship?

4. In Chapter 13, what is Jim's attitude to the adventure he and Huck have just experienced?

5. What word should Huck have used instead of "dolphin"?

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