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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How can a snag in the river be recognized?
(a) Through the appearance of a streak in the water.
(b) By the way it sticks out of the water.
(c) By the height of the waves.
(d) By a swirl and ripple in the water.

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

3. How do they all make good their escape from the villagers in Chapter 23?
(a) They lock the villagers in the hall and run for the raft.
(b) They sneak back to the raft and set off down the river.
(c) They run off to the woods and creep to the raft later.
(d) They steel horses and ride out of town.

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

5. Why does Huck want Mary Jane to leave before breakfast?
(a) He knows there is better food at the Lothrop place.
(b) She'll be able to arrive at the Lothrops' place before the heat of the day.
(c) He is afraid Mary Jane will confront the King and slap his face.
(d) He knows the expression on her face will show the King and the Duke that she is onto them.

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

7. How is Jim alerted to the coming lightning storm?
(a) He goes into a trance and sees a vision of the coming storm.
(b) He understands clouds and thunderheads.
(c) He feels a change in the atmosphere and smells ozone.
(d) He has an astute observation of birds.

8. Who suggests telling Uncle Harvey about Mary Jane and the mumps?
(a) Susan.
(b) Joanna.
(c) Huck.
(d) The Duke.

9. Who is the other person Huck tells Mary Jane in Chapter 28 would be in big trouble?
(a) Joanna.
(b) Tom Sawyer.
(c) Harney Shepherdson.
(d) Jim.

10. Who gives new clothes to Pappy?
(a) Judge Thatcher.
(b) Miss Watson.
(c) The new Judge.
(d) Huck.

11. What doesn't the Duke like about the King's portrayal of Juliet?
(a) He is bellowing when he should be speaking softly.
(b) His voice is too soft to be heard.
(c) The fact that he has a beard.
(d) He is becoming too emotional in the role.

12. In Chapter 13, what is Jim's attitude to the adventure he and Huck have just experienced?
(a) Enthusiastic. He can't wait for the next opportunity, though he does have some criticism.
(b) Negative. He didn't enjoy it and doesn't want similar adventures.
(c) Compliant. He likes Huck to lead, enjoyed the adventure and falls in with Huck's ideas.
(d) Ambivalent. He is uncertain about the moral status of what they have just done.

13. How does Jim react when he first sees Huck in Chapter 8?
(a) He thinks Huck is the Devil and is desperately afraid.
(b) He's frightened as he genuinely believes Huck is a ghost.
(c) He's relieved and happy Huck is alive.
(d) He's angry and afraid of being discovered.

14. Who pumps Huck for information about England?
(a) The King.
(b) Jim.
(c) Joanna.
(d) Mary Jane.

15. Which encores does the Duke suggest Chapter 21?
(a) The Highland fling, the sailor's hornpipe and Hamlet's soliloquy.
(b) Hamlet's soliloquy, the death of Macbeth and the death of Juliet.
(c) Hamlet's soliloquy, the Highland fling and the sword-dance.
(d) The Highland fling, the Irish jig and Malvolio's tirade.

Short Answer Questions

1. What separates Jim and Huck in the fog?

2. Where does Huck hide the money in Chapter 27?

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

4. Where does Huck take refuge during the gunfight after Sophia's elopement?

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

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