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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. How did Tom and Huck become rich?
(a) They recovered $6,000 in gold.
(b) Huck's father left him $6,000.
(c) Tom's father lent him $6,000.
(d) They were given $6,000 for handing over a runaway slave.

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

3. Why are Huck and Jim unable to land the catfish they caught?
(a) The line breaks.
(b) The fish is too enormous for them to handle.
(c) The fish pulls Jim into the water and he has to be rescued.
(d) The hook comes adrift.

4. Whose idea of the after-life does Huck favor?
(a) Tom Sawyer's.
(b) The widow's.
(c) His father's.
(d) Miss Watson's.

5. What word should Huck have used instead of "dolphin"?
(a) Whale.
(b) Catfish.
(c) Dapin.
(d) Dauphin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Huck augment his and Jim's diet of river fish and shot waterfowl?

3. What forms the basis of the humorous conversation in Chapter 14?

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

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

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