2. Why are Huck and Jim unable to land the catfish they caught?
(a) The hook comes adrift.
(b) The line breaks.
(c) The fish is too enormous for them to handle.
(d) The fish pulls Jim into the water and he has to be rescued.

3. What happens two days after the funeral?
(a) The King borrows a substantial sum of money.
(b) The King puts the property and slaves up for sale.
(c) Huck digs up the coffin.
(d) The King preaches a sermon.

4. What does Jim confide to Huck in Chapter 23?
(a) That he didn't realize scarlet fever had made his daughter deaf and punished her for not obeying him.
(b) That he is glad to be away from his family because the children are noisy and disobedient.
(c) That he stole money and jewelry from Miss Watson and has hidden these on Jackson Island.
(d) That he is really a descendent of Thomas Jefferson.

5. What is the oracle that Jim consults?
(a) A crystal ball.
(b) The way a toad reacts when it is prodded with a stick.
(c) A chicken's liver.
(d) A hairball.

6. Which people did Huck and Tom intend to ambush?
(a) Arabs.
(b) Gypsies.
(c) Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.
(d) Magicians.

7. What word should Huck have used instead of "dolphin"?
(a) Dapin.
(b) Dauphin.
(c) Whale.
(d) Catfish.

8. How has Jim been attempting to test the authenticity of the King's story?
(a) By inspecting him for a regal birthmark.
(b) By asking him about Marie Antionette.
(c) By asking him about his sea voyage to America.
(d) By trying to get him to speak French.

9. What calamity befalls Huck and Jim at the end of Chapter 16?
(a) The raft drifts off by itself and is lost.
(b) The raft is destroyed in a collision with a large steamboat.
(c) The canoe is stolen.
(d) The raft is destroyed as they ride over some rapids.

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

11. How does Huck escape from the cabin he has been locked in for three days?
(a) He saws his way out.
(b) He smashes a window and climbs out.
(c) He climbs up the inside of the chimney.
(d) He prizes up the floorboards and escapes that way.

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

13. How does Huck augment his and Jim's diet of river fish and shot waterfowl?
(a) He steals chickens and raids gardens for things like watermelons.
(b) He steals oranges and grapefruit.
(c) He finds food scraps outside restaurants.
(d) He buys cornmeal flour in a village.

14. Whose idea of the after-life does Huck favor?
(a) The widow's.
(b) His father's.
(c) Tom Sawyer's.
(d) Miss Watson's.

15. When the King questions him in Chapter 27, what lie does Huck tell?
(a) He claims to have seen Jim and Mary Jane talking to a strange man in a yellow coat.
(b) He claims that 'the niggers were in the King's room'.
(c) He claims that the undertaken sneaked into the King's room just before the funeral.
(d) He claims that Joanna and Susan were in the King's room.