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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What separates Jim and Huck in the fog?
(a) A quarrel over food.
(b) Some rapids.
(c) A large island.
(d) Huck loses his lantern and Jim can't see him.

2. What is one symbol that the fog represents?
(a) The confusion inside Huck's head.
(b) A supernatural presence.
(c) The power of the river.
(d) Journeying into the unknown.

3. What action does Jim fear will bring bad luck?
(a) Pulling floating bread from the river.
(b) Touching a snake's skin.
(c) Spitting into the wind.
(d) Falling over a black cat.

4. What does the Duke threaten to do to the King if he lies again?
(a) To strip him and push him overboard.
(b) To take his whiskey away from him.
(c) To drown him.
(d) To tar and feather him.

5. How does Huck augment his and Jim's diet of river fish and shot waterfowl?
(a) He finds food scraps outside restaurants.
(b) He buys cornmeal flour in a village.
(c) He steals oranges and grapefruit.
(d) He steals chickens and raids gardens for things like watermelons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Huck and Jim unable to land the catfish they caught?

2. How can a snag in the river be recognized?

3. What forms the basis of the humorous conversation in Chapter 14?

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

5. In Chapter 37, what does Uncle Silas promise to do next day?

(see the answer key)

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