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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time is it when the boys become too tired to carry on?
(a) Two in the morning.
(b) Four in the morning.
(c) Supper-time.
(d) Around midnight.

2. Where will Huck be able to find Jim?
(a) In jail.
(b) At Abram G. Foster's farm.
(c) At the Phelps farm.
(d) On the raft.

3. What does Aunt Sally think is wrong with Huck in Chapter 40?
(a) He has influenza.
(b) He has brain fever.
(c) He has been eating jimson weed.
(d) He has sleep deprivation.

4. What is the slave guard afraid of?
(a) Witches.
(b) Silas Phelps.
(c) Being deprived of food.
(d) Jim.

5. At what point do Huck and Tom enter Jim's cabin?
(a) In front of the door.
(b) Beside the fireplace.
(c) Under his bed.
(d) At the foot of Jim's bed.

6. What sociable activity do Jim and the boys share in Chapter 36?
(a) Smoking corncob pipes.
(b) Chewing tobacco and telling stories.
(c) Eating.
(d) Telling stories.

7. Who dresses in Aunt Sally's clothes in Chapter 40?
(a) Aunt Sally.
(b) Huck.
(c) Tom.
(d) Jim.

8. According to Tom, how do prisoners always water their plants?
(a) With their sweat.
(b) With cold tea.
(c) With fresh spring-water.
(d) With their tears.

9. In Chapter 29, how does the King claim he arrived in the town?
(a) On the Susan Powell from St. Paul.
(b) On the Beagle from Darwin.
(c) On the Beagle from New Orleans.
(d) On the Susan Powell from Cincinnati.

10. What distance has Aunt Polly traveled to check up on Tom?
(a) Five hundred miles.
(b) Two hundred miles.
(c) Eleven miles.
(d) Eleven hundred miles.

11. How does Huck explain Tom's wound to the doctor in Chapter 41?
(a) He says Tom kicked a gun in his sleep, during a dream..
(b) He claims that Tom slipped and fell and the gun discharged.
(c) He claims a bandit did the deed.
(d) He explains that Tom was cleaning the gun when it discharged.

12. Why does Huck say in Chapter 32 that he needs to make a trip to town?
(a) To exercise the horse.
(b) To meet another steamboat.
(c) To collect money.
(d) To collect his baggage.

13. Why does Huck dress as a servant girl?
(a) So that he won't be noticed as he delivers letters.
(b) The clothing won't fit Tom himself.
(c) Tom persuades him to adopt this disguise to spy out information in the village.
(d) Tom persuades him that the anonymous letters must be delivered by a servant girl.

14. What is the problem with Jim being imprisoned in a log cabin?
(a) There is nowhere for Huck and Tom to hide should someone come by.
(b) There is no rock on which he can trace his coat-of-arms.
(c) It is very cold there at night.
(d) It is easy for others to hear what is going on inside it.

15. For Huck, what is the effect of the farmers' visits and Aunt Sally's questions?
(a) He is confident and makes up a good story, as usual.
(b) He is scared and confused.
(c) He is scared, but keeps level-headed.
(d) He is becoming confused, but tries to stay confident.

Short Answer Questions

1. What doesn't Tom Sawyer like about Huck's plan for releasing Jim?

2. What secret does Huck share with Tom in Chapter 33?

3. What makes Huck squirm in Chapter 30?

4. How many gun-toting farmers were in the sitting-room in Chapter 40?

5. Where does the King lay the blame for the missing money?

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