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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. Where, on the island, do Huck and Jim hide their belongings?
(a) In bundles secured to treetops.
(b) Inside a hollow log in a clearing.
(c) In a cavern.
(d) In a hole dug under a marked tree.

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

3. Which of these statements is closest to a description of Huck's father?
(a) He has a brutal face with a broken nose and a big scar on his left cheek.
(b) He has wide lips, shaggy hair and very bad breath.
(c) He has a white face, long greasy beard and dark black eyes.
(d) He has a ghostly white face, dribbles through broken teeth and has eyes that once might have been intelligent.

4. What does Huck do with his money?
(a) He signs the entire amount to Judge Thatcher.
(b) He asks Judge Thatcher to give it to the Widow.
(c) He gives the money to an anti-slavery movement.
(d) He asks Judge Thatcher to invest all the money in pork bellies.

5. How does Huck escape from the cabin he has been locked in for three days?
(a) He prizes up the floorboards and escapes that way.
(b) He climbs up the inside of the chimney.
(c) He saws his way out.
(d) He smashes a window and climbs out.

Short Answer Questions

1. As he chases Huck around the cabin, brandishing a knife, what does Pappy call his son?

2. Why are Huck and Jim unable to land the catfish they caught?

3. What is the oracle that Jim consults?

4. Why are loaves of bread floating down the river?

5. How does Huck's practical joke on Jim backfire?

(see the answer key)

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