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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What suggests that Jim is only playing along with the two boys in their outrageous escape plan?
(a) He can unshackle himself at will.
(b) He humors them by going along with the silly, romantic nonsense.
(c) He has told another slave about the escapade.
(d) He threatens to leave if he has to put himself in physical danger.

2. Why are the streets of the 'one horse town' empty?
(a) Most people have gone to the camp meeting.
(b) It is siesta time.
(c) The town is under quarantine.
(d) It is a ghost town.

3. What does Jim confide to Huck in Chapter 23?
(a) That he is really a descendent of Thomas Jefferson.
(b) That he is glad to be away from his family because the children are noisy and disobedient.
(c) That he stole money and jewelry from Miss Watson and has hidden these on Jackson Island.
(d) That he didn't realize scarlet fever had made his daughter deaf and punished her for not obeying him.

4. How can a snag in the river be recognized?
(a) By the way it sticks out of the water.
(b) By the height of the waves.
(c) By a swirl and ripple in the water.
(d) Through the appearance of a streak in the water.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Huck, what delayed his steamer?

2. What does Huck see behind the smokehouse in Chapter 35?

3. Which animal does Tom suggest Jim might tame?

4. What is Huck's reaction to the widow's prayer?

5. According to what Huck tells the King and the Duke, where did his parents come from?

(see the answer key)

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