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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 height of the waves.
(c) By the way it sticks out of the water.
(d) By a swirl and ripple in the water.

2. What explanation does 'Sarah/Mary' Williams give for her journey?
(a) She has to tell Uncle Abner that her mother is ill and out of money.
(b) She is on her way to visit a sick aunt.
(c) She is running away from an arranged marriage.
(d) She was bringing money to Uncle Abner, but was robbed.

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

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

5. 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) Metaphor.
(b) Simile.
(c) Exaggeration.
(d) Personification.

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

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

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

9. As he chases Huck around the cabin, brandishing a knife, what does Pappy call his son?
(a) A freak of nature who belongs in Hell.
(b) A right nasty varmint.
(c) The Devil incarnate.
(d) The Angel of Death.

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

11. What convinces the ferry captain to investigate the sinking ship?
(a) Huck's story of a good financial reward.
(b) Huck's harrowing story of women and children in peril..
(c) The opportunity for glory in catching murderers.
(d) The possibility of valuable salvage.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What news does Mrs. Loftus give Huck regarding his 'murder'?

2. Where does Colonel Sherburn stand to protect himself in Chapter 22?

3. Name the figurative language used in "the wind was trying to whisper something to me."

4. What has been bringing many people to town in Chapter 21?

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

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