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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Huck's reaction to the widow's prayer?
(a) He takes it seriously and goes off to the forest to think about it
(b) He ridicules prayer because he can't see how it helps people.
(c) He takes it seriously and vows to attend church.
(d) He decides to test prayer by praying for impossible things.

2. Why is Huck worried when the coffin lid is screwed on?
(a) He knows he will soon be found out by Mary Jane.
(b) He thinks maybe the rat got in there.
(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.

3. What calamity befalls Huck and Jim at the end of Chapter 16?
(a) The canoe is stolen.
(b) The raft is destroyed as they ride over some rapids.
(c) The raft is destroyed in a collision with a large steamboat.
(d) The raft drifts off by itself and is lost.

4. Why is his father annoyed with Huck in Chapter 5?
(a) Huck is too friendly with Jim.
(b) Huck put his money where his father couldn't get it.
(c) Huck is not progressing quickly enough at school.
(d) He doesn't like Huck's airs, nor does he like Huck being educated.

5. Why is Huck pleased he chose to hide behind the curtain and not under the bed in Chapter 26?
(a) Because he enjoys the perfume in Mary Jane's dresses.
(b) Because he can actually see what the King and the Duke are up to.
(c) Because the first thing the duke does is to look under the bed.
(d) Because there is a smelly chamber pot under the bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many logs worth selling do Pap and Huck find?

2. Who suggests telling Uncle Harvey about Mary Jane and the mumps?

3. Who keeps hold of Huck's hand in Chapter 29?

4. What is the origin of the feud between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons?

5. Who was allowed to sleep in Emmeline Grangerford's room?

(see the answer key)

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