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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. Who gives new clothes to Pappy?
(a) Huck.
(b) Miss Watson.
(c) Judge Thatcher.
(d) The new Judge.

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

3. What idea is it that Huck and his friends don't fully understand [when forming their gang and making plans]?
(a) Ransom.
(b) Remuneration.
(c) Redress.
(d) Reconciliation.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the 'good place' to which Miss Watson keeps referring?

2. How many logs worth selling do Pap and Huck find?

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

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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