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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main accusation Colonel Sherburn levels at the crowd?
(a) Poor dress standards.
(b) Racial prejudice.
(c) A negligent attitude to their church-going.
(d) Cowardice.

2. What forms the basis of the humorous conversation in Chapter 14?
(a) Jim's accent.
(b) Huck's garbled retelling of matter he has just read about.
(c) Huck's American vernacular.
(d) Huck telling Jim more tall stories.

3. Who is responsible for tending the door on the night of the special performance in Chapter 23?
(a) Emmeline.
(b) The Duke.
(c) Huck.
(d) The King.

4. In Chapter 28, where was the auction held?
(a) On the porch of the house.
(b) In the church hall.
(c) On the veranda of the general store.
(d) In the public square.

5. How does Huck give himself thinking time when questions about England become awkward?
(a) He pretends to choke on a chicken bone.
(b) He pretends to sneeze.
(c) He has a drink of water.
(d) He says there's a mouse under the table.

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

7. What separates Jim and Huck in the fog?
(a) Huck loses his lantern and Jim can't see him.
(b) A large island.
(c) Some rapids.
(d) A quarrel over food.

8. Where does Huck go to cook his supper in Chapter 8?
(a) Deep into the woods.
(b) Close to where he has hidden the canoe.
(c) The Illinois bank of the river.
(d) On the beach facing the Illinois bank.

9. Name the figurative language used in "the wind was trying to whisper something to me."
(a) Synecdoche.
(b) Simile.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Personification.

10. Why isn't Lawyer Bell present in Chapter 25?
(a) He is on holiday in New Orleans.
(b) He is out hunting.
(c) He is dead.
(d) He is on business in Louisville.

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

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) Compliant. He likes Huck to lead, enjoyed the adventure and falls in with Huck's ideas.
(c) Negative. He didn't enjoy it and doesn't want similar adventures.
(d) Ambivalent. He is uncertain about the moral status of what they have just done.

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

14. What has been bringing many people to town in Chapter 21?
(a) A salesman selling a new embrocation.
(b) A traveling freak show.
(c) A circus.
(d) A performance of opera.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Huck augment his and Jim's diet of river fish and shot waterfowl?

2. Where, on the island, do Huck and Jim hide their belongings?

3. In contrast to the expressions of grief acted by the King and the Duke, what does Huck view as a good thing?

4. Why is Huck pleased he chose to hide behind the curtain and not under the bed in Chapter 26?

5. Why does Huck lose interest in Moses?

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