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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 42.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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 doesn't know whether or not the bag of money is still in the coffin.
(d) He thinks perhaps he'll receive a beating from the Duke.

3. What is the alias Huck uses at the Grangerfords?
(a) Andrew Jackson.
(b) George Jackson.
(c) George Jameson.
(d) Tom Sawyer.

4. How does Huck give himself thinking time when questions about England become awkward?
(a) He has a drink of water.
(b) He pretends to sneeze.
(c) He pretends to choke on a chicken bone.
(d) He says there's a mouse under the table.

5. What is unusual about the tracks Huck finds in the snow?
(a) There are additional marks made by a spur.
(b) The footprints are unusually large and heavy.
(c) There is a cross in the left boot heel.
(d) There is a cross in the right boot heel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What doesn't Tom Sawyer like about Huck's plan for releasing Jim?

2. What is Aunt Sally doing when Huck again escapes down the lightning rod?

3. In Chapter 29, how does the King claim he arrived in the town?

4. Who has "no more smile to him than there is to a ham"?

5. What injury has the real William Wilks sustained?

(see the answer key)

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