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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are loaves of bread floating down the river?
(a) A bread cart has fallen off a bridge.
(b) People believe bread thrown in the water will prevent more drownings.
(c) People believe bread dabbed with quicksilver will float to a corpse.
(d) An angry chef has thrown loaves of bread from a river steamer.

2. How is Jim alerted to the coming lightning storm?
(a) He goes into a trance and sees a vision of the coming storm.
(b) He feels a change in the atmosphere and smells ozone.
(c) He understands clouds and thunderheads.
(d) He has an astute observation of birds.

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

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

5. Why is Huck feeling "mean and miserable" in Chapter 15?
(a) He is troubled by his conscience.
(b) He is hungry and cold.
(c) He is lonely.
(d) He knows he has been mean to Jim.

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

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

8. Why do the murderers defer leaving in the skiff?
(a) They decide to have a pot of whiskey first.
(b) They want to get Turner's share of the money.
(c) They are worried about the river currents.
(d) They want to get rid of Turner first.

9. Where, on the island, do Huck and Jim hide their belongings?
(a) In a hole dug under a marked tree.
(b) In a cavern.
(c) In bundles secured to treetops.
(d) Inside a hollow log in a clearing.

10. In his stories, what does Jim tell people about his five-cent piece?
(a) He stole it from the Devil.
(b) The Devil gave it to him.
(c) Miss Watson gave it to him.
(d) He found it under a tree.

11. 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 Irish jig and Malvolio's tirade.
(c) The Highland fling, the sailor's hornpipe and Hamlet's soliloquy.
(d) Hamlet's soliloquy, the Highland fling and the sword-dance.

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

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

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

15. Why is his father annoyed with Huck in Chapter 5?
(a) Huck is too friendly with Jim.
(b) Huck put his money where his father couldn't get it.
(c) Huck is not progressing quickly enough at school.
(d) He doesn't like Huck's airs, nor does he like Huck being educated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What forms the basis of the humorous conversation in Chapter 14?

2. What convinces the ferry captain to investigate the sinking ship?

3. Why are Huck and Jim unable to land the catfish they caught?

4. Why is Huck worried when the coffin lid is screwed on?

5. What is the source of the commotion in the cellar in Chapter 27?

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