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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Huck worried when the coffin lid is screwed on?
(a) He thinks maybe the rat got in there.
(b) He thinks perhaps he'll receive a beating from the Duke.
(c) He knows he will soon be found out by Mary Jane.
(d) He doesn't know whether or not the bag of money is still in the coffin.

2. What was Peter Wilks's occupation?
(a) Tanner.
(b) Baker.
(c) Printer.
(d) Doctor.

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

4. 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 steals oranges and grapefruit.
(c) He steals chickens and raids gardens for things like watermelons.
(d) He finds food scraps outside restaurants.

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

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

7. Who has "no more smile to him than there is to a ham"?
(a) Peter.
(b) The undertaker.
(c) Jim.
(d) The King.

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

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

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

11. What is the origin of the feud between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons?
(a) There was a dispute over land.
(b) There was a romance between a Shepherdson and a Grangerford.
(c) There was a dispute over the river landing stage.
(d) No one seems to know, as it started so long ago.

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

13. How do Huck and Jim enter the wrecked ship?
(a) They climb onto the larboard deck and go down a ladder.
(b) By climbing the paddle-wheel.
(c) Through the forward skylight.
(d) Through a hole in the stern.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had the Grangerfords' beautiful oil cloth table cover come from?

2. What is the main accusation Colonel Sherburn levels at the crowd?

3. Who suggests telling Uncle Harvey about Mary Jane and the mumps?

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

5. In Jim's eyes, how is Huck different?

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