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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these statements is closest to a description of Huck's father?
(a) He has wide lips, shaggy hair and very bad breath.
(b) He has a ghostly white face, dribbles through broken teeth and has eyes that once might have been intelligent.
(c) He has a brutal face with a broken nose and a big scar on his left cheek.
(d) He has a white face, long greasy beard and dark black eyes.

2. How do Huck and Jim first conceal themselves on the Illinois shore?
(a) They dig a shelter on the riverbank.
(b) They hide in a cottonwood thicket.
(c) They stay on the raft that they have covered with branches.
(d) They hide in a ditch.

3. Why is his father annoyed with Huck in Chapter 5?
(a) Huck is too friendly with Jim.
(b) Huck put his money where his father couldn't get it.
(c) Huck is not progressing quickly enough at school.
(d) He doesn't like Huck's airs, nor does he like Huck being educated.

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

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

6. Why does Huck lose interest in Moses?
(a) Moses is dead and Huck is interested only in the living
(b) The Widow Douglas reads poorly.
(c) He dislikes Moses' character.
(d) Huck is an atheist and hates Bible stories.

7. Why does Huck take a canoe up a 'chute' in Chapter 19?
(a) To evade Pappy.
(b) To find some berries.
(c) To steal a chicken.
(d) To find Jim.

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

9. 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 says there's a mouse under the table.
(d) He pretends to choke on a chicken bone.

10. Why do Huck and Jim leave the baby's bottle in the house?
(a) They think it contains poison.
(b) It is broken.
(c) It contains sour milk and would be diffficult to clean.
(d) It is too small to use as a water bottle.

11. Who says: "It's lovely to live on a raft"?
(a) The Duke.
(b) Tom Sawyer.
(c) Huck Finn.
(d) Jim.

12. What is the source of the commotion in the cellar in Chapter 27?
(a) A dog that has found a rat.
(b) A drunken mourner has raided a wine barrell.
(c) The King and the Duke fighting over the money.
(d) A dog has baled up a runaway slave.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Peter Wilks's occupation?

2. What is Huck's reaction to the widow's prayer?

3. Why are the streets of the 'one horse town' empty?

4. How can a snag in the river be recognized?

5. What illness is supposed to be the problem at the Proctors'?

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