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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25 | Chapter 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the sunken steamer?
(a) The Walter Stott.
(b) The Nellie.
(c) The Miss Charlotte.
(d) The Walter Scott.

3. What action does Jim fear will bring bad luck?
(a) Touching a snake's skin.
(b) Falling over a black cat.
(c) Pulling floating bread from the river.
(d) Spitting into the wind.

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

5. What does Jim confide to Huck in Chapter 23?
(a) That he is really a descendent of Thomas Jefferson.
(b) That he is glad to be away from his family because the children are noisy and disobedient.
(c) That he stole money and jewelry from Miss Watson and has hidden these on Jackson Island.
(d) That he didn't realize scarlet fever had made his daughter deaf and punished her for not obeying him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the streets of the 'one horse town' empty?

2. What idea is it that Huck and his friends don't fully understand [when forming their gang and making plans]?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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