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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 does Jim react when he first sees Huck in Chapter 8?
(a) He's relieved and happy Huck is alive.
(b) He thinks Huck is the Devil and is desperately afraid.
(c) He's angry and afraid of being discovered.
(d) He's frightened as he genuinely believes Huck is a ghost.

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

3. How do Huck and Jim first conceal themselves on the Illinois shore?
(a) They stay on the raft that they have covered with branches.
(b) They hide in a cottonwood thicket.
(c) They dig a shelter on the riverbank.
(d) They hide in a ditch.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the murderers defer leaving in the skiff?

2. Where, on the island, do Huck and Jim hide their belongings?

3. Which of these statements is closest to a description of Huck's father?

4. What first alerts Mrs. Loftus to the fact that 'Sarah/Mary' is a boy?

5. What is the oracle that Jim consults?

(see the answer key)

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