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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the King do after his confession?
(a) He retired to the wigwam with a bottle.
(b) He tells jokes till everyone is asleep.
(c) He cries.
(d) He goes for a cleansing swim, symbolic of beginning a new life.

2. In Jim's eyes, how is Huck different?
(a) Jim thinks Huck is braver than anyone else he knows.
(b) Jim says Huck is 'true blue' and is helping him.
(c) Jim says Huck is the only 'white' person who has ever honored a promise to him.
(d) Jim notes that Huck has little care for money.

3. With the case-knives not working, what does Tom then choose for digging tools?
(a) Spades.
(b) Rakes.
(c) Picks.
(d) Hoes.

4. Where, on the island, do Huck and Jim hide their belongings?
(a) In bundles secured to treetops.
(b) In a cavern.
(c) In a hole dug under a marked tree.
(d) Inside a hollow log in a clearing.

5. Who has "no more smile to him than there is to a ham"?
(a) The King.
(b) Peter.
(c) Jim.
(d) The undertaker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Peter Wilks's occupation?

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

3. Why is Huck feeling "mean and miserable" in Chapter 15?

4. According to Tom, what is the problem with Jim's captivity?

5. As he chases Huck around the cabin, brandishing a knife, what does Pappy call his son?

(see the answer key)

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