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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the stranger from Hicksville?
(a) Tom Sawyer.
(b) Judge Thatcher.
(c) Huckleberry Finn.
(d) Harvey Wilks.

2. Where had the Grangerfords' beautiful oil cloth table cover come from?
(a) Cairo.
(b) New York.
(c) Philadelphia.
(d) Minneapolis.

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

4. How does the doctor rate Huck as a liar?
(a) Poorly.
(b) Very creative at it.
(c) He is unaware that Huck is telling lies.
(d) Excellently.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the sunken steamer?

2. What is the problem with Jim being imprisoned in a log cabin?

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

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

5. Whose idea of the after-life does Huck favor?

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