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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Huck do with the canoe when he reaches Jackson's Island?
(a) He conceals it under willow branches.
(b) He lets it drift down the river.
(c) He scuttles it.
(d) He hauls it way up the bank and hides it in some woods.

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 a ghostly white face, dribbles through broken teeth and has eyes that once might have been intelligent.
(c) He has a brutal face with a broken nose and a big scar on his left cheek.
(d) He has wide lips, shaggy hair and very bad breath.

3. Who has "no more smile to him than there is to a ham"?
(a) The undertaker.
(b) Peter.
(c) Jim.
(d) The King.

4. As he chases Huck around the cabin, brandishing a knife, what does Pappy call his son?
(a) The Angel of Death.
(b) The Devil incarnate.
(c) A freak of nature who belongs in Hell.
(d) A right nasty varmint.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Huck call "the horriblest looking outrage I ever see"?

2. How has Jim been attempting to test the authenticity of the King's story?

3. What separates Jim and Huck in the fog?

4. What is the oracle that Jim consults?

5. Why is Silas Phelps scared?

(see the answer key)

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