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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 | Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As he chases Huck around the cabin, brandishing a knife, what does Pappy call his son?
(a) The Angel of Death.
(b) A right nasty varmint.
(c) The Devil incarnate.
(d) A freak of nature who belongs in Hell.

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

3. What is unusual about the tracks Huck finds in the snow?
(a) There are additional marks made by a spur.
(b) There is a cross in the right boot heel.
(c) There is a cross in the left boot heel.
(d) The footprints are unusually large and heavy.

4. Which people did Huck and Tom intend to ambush?
(a) Magicians.
(b) Arabs.
(c) Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.
(d) Gypsies.

5. Why are loaves of bread floating down the river?
(a) People believe bread thrown in the water will prevent more drownings.
(b) An angry chef has thrown loaves of bread from a river steamer.
(c) A bread cart has fallen off a bridge.
(d) People believe bread dabbed with quicksilver will float to a corpse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is his father annoyed with Huck in Chapter 5?

2. What idea is it that Huck and his friends don't fully understand [when forming their gang and making plans]?

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

4. How did Tom and Huck become rich?

5. What does Huck do with his money?

(see the answer key)

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