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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jim receive his food while in captivity?
(a) On a pan.
(b) On a trencher made with fried bread.
(c) On a tin plate.
(d) On a salver.

2. What does Jim throw out the window in Chapter 37?
(a) The witch pie.
(b) The rope ladder.
(c) His vittles.
(d) A tin plate.

3. Where does Tom leave an anonymous letter?
(a) At the back of the neck of a sleeping slave.
(b) In the fist of a sleeping slave.
(c) Sticking out from the front doormat.
(d) Under Aunt Sally's pillow.

4. 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 becoming confused, but tries to stay confident.
(d) He is scared, but keeps level-headed.

5. What does the King do after his confession?
(a) He tells jokes till everyone is asleep.
(b) He goes for a cleansing swim, symbolic of beginning a new life.
(c) He cries.
(d) He retired to the wigwam with a bottle.

6. Why was it ineffective to set the dogs on the gang in Chapter 40?
(a) The boys and Jim crossed water and put them off the scent.
(b) The boys fed the dogs a sleeping drug.
(c) The dogs knew the boys and Jim.
(d) The boys and Jim had too much of a head start.

7. In Chapter 32, who does Huck say gave him breakfast?
(a) The steamboat Captain.
(b) A generous passenger on the steamboat.
(c) A lady at the steamboat landing.
(d) A nearby farmer.

8. How do Huck and Tom exit the house in Chapter 36?
(a) Out the back door.
(b) Down the lightning rod.
(c) Through the front window.
(d) Through the storm cellar.

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

10. Where does the King lay the blame for the missing money?
(a) Thieves.
(b) The undertaker.
(c) Tom Collins.
(d) The slaves from the Wilks household.

11. What secret does Huck share with Tom in Chapter 33?
(a) That he has money hidden away.
(b) That the King and the Duke are after him.
(c) The place where the raft is hidden.
(d) That he is trying to steal Jim out of slavery.

12. What falls out of Uncle Silas's hat?
(a) A spoon.
(b) A shingle nail.
(c) Some of his hair.
(d) A rat.

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

14. What injury has the real William Wilks sustained?
(a) A broken arm.
(b) A cut to the forehead.
(c) A broken elbow.
(d) A laceration to his foot.

15. What are the clues that there is someone in the ash hopper?
(a) Aunt Sally keeps looking at the place to check.
(b) People tip-toe by there.
(c) There's a lock on the door and watermelon is taken in there at suppertime.
(d) There is a lock on the door and someone can be heard wailing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Huck dress as a servant girl?

2. How had Tom planned to compensate Jim for the problems he caused him?

3. How does Huck explain Tom's wound to the doctor in Chapter 41?

4. What does Huck confess to Aunt Sally in Chapter 41?

5. What does Huck think is "the lonesomest sound in the whole world"?

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