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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Huck think is "the lonesomest sound in the whole world"?
(a) The hum of a spinning-wheel.
(b) The lapping of water at midnight.
(c) The cry of a whippoorwill.
(d) The baying of hounds.

2. Where does Huck hide the raft in Chapter 31?
(a) On the other side of the river.
(b) At a woody island in the river.
(c) Under the sawmill's landing-stage.
(d) On Jackson's Island.

3. Why isn't Jim able to sleep in Chapter 39?
(a) He is excited about escaping.
(b) He is disturbed by the animals' activity.
(c) Huck and Tom make too much noise.
(d) He is afraid of witches.

4. How does Huck's practical joke on Jim backfire?
(a) Jim is bitten by an actual snake.
(b) Jim is so angry that he attacks Huck.
(c) Jim turns the tables by putting live coals in Huck's bed.
(d) Huck is bitten by a rattlesnake.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Jim alerted to the coming lightning storm?

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

3. What does the Duke threaten to do to the King if he lies again?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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