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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who says: "It's lovely to live on a raft"?
(a) Huck Finn.
(b) The Duke.
(c) Jim.
(d) Tom Sawyer.

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

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

8. Why isn't Lawyer Bell present in Chapter 25?
(a) He is on business in Louisville.
(b) He is out hunting.
(c) He is on holiday in New Orleans.
(d) He is dead.

9. What idea is it that Huck and his friends don't fully understand [when forming their gang and making plans]?
(a) Ransom.
(b) Remuneration.
(c) Redress.
(d) Reconciliation.

10. Why does Huck lose interest in Moses?
(a) Huck is an atheist and hates Bible stories.
(b) He dislikes Moses' character.
(c) The Widow Douglas reads poorly.
(d) Moses is dead and Huck is interested only in the living

11. What separates Jim and Huck in the fog?
(a) A large island.
(b) A quarrel over food.
(c) Huck loses his lantern and Jim can't see him.
(d) Some rapids.

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

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

14. Where does Huck hide the money in Chapter 27?
(a) In Joanna's room.
(b) Under Peter's bed.
(c) On the raft.
(d) In Peter's coffin.

15. What forms the basis of the humorous conversation in Chapter 14?
(a) Huck's garbled retelling of matter he has just read about.
(b) Jim's accent.
(c) Huck's American vernacular.
(d) Huck telling Jim more tall stories.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the other person Huck tells Mary Jane in Chapter 28 would be in big trouble?

2. Who is the servant, Adolphus?

3. What explanation does Huck give for having the gun in his hands?

4. Whose idea of the after-life does Huck favor?

5. How can a snag in the river be recognized?

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