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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 37.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the 'good place' to which Miss Watson keeps referring?
(a) The cemetery.
(b) Church.
(c) Baton Rouge.
(d) Heaven.

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

3. What doesn't Tom Sawyer like about Huck's plan for releasing Jim?
(a) It is too complicated.
(b) It will result in too much noise.
(c) It is dangerous.
(d) It is too simple.

4. What does Huck call "the horriblest looking outrage I ever see"?
(a) Jim begging to be tied up again.
(b) Slaves being beaten by a cruel overseer.
(c) Jim dressed up and painted as a sick Arab.
(d) The King and the Duke buying clothes with their swindled money.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Huck take a canoe up a 'chute' in Chapter 19?

2. How does Huck's practical joke on Jim backfire?

3. What 'relict' do the boys procure from the garret in Chapter 37?

4. In contrast to the expressions of grief acted by the King and the Duke, what does Huck view as a good thing?

5. What explanation does Huck give for having the gun in his hands?

(see the answer key)

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