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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. 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.

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

3. In Chapter 13, what is Jim's attitude to the adventure he and Huck have just experienced?
(a) Negative. He didn't enjoy it and doesn't want similar adventures.
(b) Enthusiastic. He can't wait for the next opportunity, though he does have some criticism.
(c) Ambivalent. He is uncertain about the moral status of what they have just done.
(d) Compliant. He likes Huck to lead, enjoyed the adventure and falls in with Huck's ideas.

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

5. What does Huck do with the canoe when he reaches Jackson's Island?
(a) He hauls it way up the bank and hides it in some woods.
(b) He conceals it under willow branches.
(c) He scuttles it.
(d) He lets it drift down the river.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose idea of the after-life does Huck favor?

3. Where, on the island, do Huck and Jim hide their belongings?

4. What is the oracle that Jim consults?

5. How was Colonel Grangerford attired on Sundays?

(see the answer key)

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