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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. How does Huck's practical joke on Jim backfire?
(a) Huck is bitten by a rattlesnake.
(b) Jim turns the tables by putting live coals in Huck's bed.
(c) Jim is bitten by an actual snake.
(d) Jim is so angry that he attacks Huck.

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

3. Where does Huck take refuge during the gunfight after Sophia's elopement?
(a) In a tree.
(b) In his canoe.
(c) In Emeline's bedroom.
(d) Under the wood heap.

4. 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.

5. What first alerts Mrs. Loftus to the fact that 'Sarah/Mary' is a boy?
(a) He doesn't walk daintily in a dress.
(b) His fingernails are dirty.
(c) She sees that he has some fuzz on his cheeks and chin.
(d) Huck does not thread a needle in a feminine way.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Jim alerted to the coming lightning storm?

2. Who is the servant, Adolphus?

3. How do Huck and Jim first conceal themselves on the Illinois shore?

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

5. What word should Huck have used instead of "dolphin"?

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