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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13 | Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is his father annoyed with Huck in Chapter 5?
(a) Huck put his money where his father couldn't get it.
(b) Huck is not progressing quickly enough at school.
(c) He doesn't like Huck's airs, nor does he like Huck being educated.
(d) Huck is too friendly with Jim.

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

3. How does Huck augment his and Jim's diet of river fish and shot waterfowl?
(a) He buys cornmeal flour in a village.
(b) He steals oranges and grapefruit.
(c) He steals chickens and raids gardens for things like watermelons.
(d) He finds food scraps outside restaurants.

4. What is the 'good place' to which Miss Watson keeps referring?
(a) Baton Rouge.
(b) Church.
(c) Heaven.
(d) The cemetery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Huck and Jim leave the baby's bottle in the house?

2. In what way is Huck's time with his father spoiled?

3. In Chapter 13, what is Jim's attitude to the adventure he and Huck have just experienced?

4. What convinces the ferry captain to investigate the sinking ship?

5. How do Huck and Jim enter the wrecked ship?

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