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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What forms the basis of the humorous conversation in Chapter 14?
(a) Jim's accent.
(b) Huck's American vernacular.
(c) Huck telling Jim more tall stories.
(d) Huck's garbled retelling of matter he has just read about.

2. Where will Huck be able to find Jim?
(a) In jail.
(b) On the raft.
(c) At the Phelps farm.
(d) At Abram G. Foster's farm.

3. Why is Huck worried when the coffin lid is screwed on?
(a) He thinks maybe the rat got in there.
(b) He knows he will soon be found out by Mary Jane.
(c) He thinks perhaps he'll receive a beating from the Duke.
(d) He doesn't know whether or not the bag of money is still in the coffin.

4. How is Jim alerted to the coming lightning storm?
(a) He goes into a trance and sees a vision of the coming storm.
(b) He understands clouds and thunderheads.
(c) He feels a change in the atmosphere and smells ozone.
(d) He has an astute observation of birds.

5. Why does Tom Sawyer say "H'aint ever done you no harm"?
(a) He thinks Huck is a ghost come to haunt him.
(b) He thinks Huck is about to steal his horse.
(c) He fears Huck will blackmail him about Jim.
(d) He thinks Huck is about to assault him.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what reason is Peter Wilks' body to be exhumed?

2. Where does Huck take refuge during the gunfight after Sophia's elopement?

3. What separates Jim and Huck in the fog?

4. Who has "no more smile to him than there is to a ham"?

5. How does Huck escape from the cabin he has been locked in for three days?

(see the answer key)

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