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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is the servant, Adolphus?
(a) Huck Finn.
(b) Jim.
(c) Tom Sawyer.
(d) The Duke.

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

10. Huck's narrative includes the words: "but I was over the shoal water now." This is an example of what sort of figurative language?
(a) Personification.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Simile.
(d) Exaggeration.

11. What does Huck do with the canoe when he reaches Jackson's Island?
(a) He scuttles it.
(b) He conceals it under willow branches.
(c) He lets it drift down the river.
(d) He hauls it way up the bank and hides it in some woods.

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

13. What is the alias Huck uses at the Grangerfords?
(a) Andrew Jackson.
(b) George Jackson.
(c) Tom Sawyer.
(d) George Jameson.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why isn't Lawyer Bell present in Chapter 25?

2. What is the oracle that Jim consults?

3. Why does Huck lose interest in Moses?

4. What first alerts Mrs. Loftus to the fact that 'Sarah/Mary' is a boy?

5. Who says: "It's lovely to live on a raft"?

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