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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What illness is supposed to be the problem at the Proctors'?
(a) Scarlet fever.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Mumps.

2. How did the King obtain the money to get drunk?
(a) He sold Jim as a runaway slave.
(b) He robbed a house.
(c) He stole from an old woman.
(d) He had kept some of the Wilks family's money.

3. Why didn't Huck mind Uncle Silas' long blessing?
(a) He didn't listen.
(b) The food was so good.
(c) He was becoming religious.
(d) He had taken a great liking to Uncle Silas.

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

5. Huck's narrative includes the words: "but I was over the shoal water now." This is an example of what sort of figurative language?
(a) Simile.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Personification.
(d) Exaggeration.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who built Silas Phelps' church?

2. Why does Huck say in Chapter 32 that he needs to make a trip to town?

3. What first alerts Mrs. Loftus to the fact that 'Sarah/Mary' is a boy?

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

5. How soon do the King and the Duke make up their quarrel in Chapter 30?

(see the answer key)

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