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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was it ineffective to set the dogs on the gang in Chapter 40?
(a) The boys and Jim had too much of a head start.
(b) The dogs knew the boys and Jim.
(c) The boys and Jim crossed water and put them off the scent.
(d) The boys fed the dogs a sleeping drug.

2. What is the name of the sunken steamer?
(a) The Walter Stott.
(b) The Nellie.
(c) The Miss Charlotte.
(d) The Walter Scott.

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

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

5. How do Huck and Tom exit the house in Chapter 36?
(a) Down the lightning rod.
(b) Through the front window.
(c) Through the storm cellar.
(d) Out the back door.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to what Huck tells the King and the Duke, where did his parents come from?

2. Why can't Tom get back up the lightning rod?

3. Where do Huck and Tom obtain a wire rat trap?

4. What are yallarboys?

5. How many gun-toting farmers were in the sitting-room in Chapter 40?

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