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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. Who was allowed to sleep in Emmeline Grangerford's room?
(a) Guests from New Orleans.
(b) Harney Shepherson.
(c) No one.
(d) Huck.

2. How is Jim alerted to the coming lightning storm?
(a) He understands clouds and thunderheads.
(b) He goes into a trance and sees a vision of the coming storm.
(c) He has an astute observation of birds.
(d) He feels a change in the atmosphere and smells ozone.

3. Why do the murderers defer leaving in the skiff?
(a) They want to get rid of Turner first.
(b) They are worried about the river currents.
(c) They want to get Turner's share of the money.
(d) They decide to have a pot of whiskey first.

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

5. What is the origin of the feud between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons?
(a) There was a dispute over the river landing stage.
(b) There was a dispute over land.
(c) No one seems to know, as it started so long ago.
(d) There was a romance between a Shepherdson and a Grangerford.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the oracle that Jim consults?

2. What explanation does Huck give for having the gun in his hands?

3. Where does Huck take refuge during the gunfight after Sophia's elopement?

4. What is unusual about the tracks Huck finds in the snow?

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

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