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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In contrast to the expressions of grief acted by the King and the Duke, what does Huck view as a good thing?
(a) Honesty.
(b) Frankness.
(c) Capital.
(d) Music.

3. In Jim's eyes, how is Huck different?
(a) Jim says Huck is the only 'white' person who has ever honored a promise to him.
(b) Jim notes that Huck has little care for money.
(c) Jim says Huck is 'true blue' and is helping him.
(d) Jim thinks Huck is braver than anyone else he knows.

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

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

6. What illness is supposed to be the problem at the Proctors'?
(a) Mumps.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Scarlet fever.

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

8. How does Huck escape from the cabin he has been locked in for three days?
(a) He prizes up the floorboards and escapes that way.
(b) He climbs up the inside of the chimney.
(c) He saws his way out.
(d) He smashes a window and climbs out.

9. According to what Huck tells the King and the Duke, where did his parents come from?
(a) Pike County in Missouri.
(b) Carp County in Illinois.
(c) Pike County in Illinois.
(d) Orange County in California.

10. Who was allowed to sleep in Emmeline Grangerford's room?
(a) No one.
(b) Harney Shepherson.
(c) Guests from New Orleans.
(d) Huck.

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

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

13. 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 knows the expression on her face will show the King and the Duke that she is onto them.
(d) He is afraid Mary Jane will confront the King and slap his face.

14. Where does Colonel Sherburn stand to protect himself in Chapter 22?
(a) Behind his front gate.
(b) Behind the wood-heap.
(c) At the front door of his house.
(d) On the roof of his front porch.

15. What calamity befalls Huck and Jim at the end of Chapter 16?
(a) The raft is destroyed in a collision with a large steamboat.
(b) The raft is destroyed as they ride over some rapids.
(c) The canoe is stolen.
(d) The raft drifts off by itself and is lost.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Huck lose interest in Moses?

2. What is the name of the sunken steamer?

3. Huck's narrative includes the words: "but I was over the shoal water now." This is an example of what sort of figurative language?

4. What does Huck do with the canoe when he reaches Jackson's Island?

5. Who gives new clothes to Pappy?

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