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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Why is Jim lavishly fussed over by the aunts?
(a) They don't want him to think badly of them.
(b) They want to make up for all Jim's unnecessary tribulations.
(c) They haven't met a freed slave before.
(d) They discover how wonderful Jim was in helping the doctor care for Tom.

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

4. What doesn't Tom Sawyer like about Huck's plan for releasing Jim?
(a) It is too simple.
(b) It is too complicated.
(c) It is dangerous.
(d) It will result in too much noise.

5. What is the problem with Jim keeping a journal?
(a) He cannot write.
(b) He will lose it.
(c) They are too far from the shops to buy one.
(d) He has no pen.

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

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

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

9. Why does Huck think he has no money left?
(a) He's had to pay for damage to the steam-boat that ran over the raft.
(b) Judge Thatcher has not invested it wisely.
(c) His father has probably stolen it.
(d) He imagines his father has obtained the money from Judge Thatcher and spent it all on drink.

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

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

12. Who is the stranger from Hicksville?
(a) Huckleberry Finn.
(b) Tom Sawyer.
(c) Judge Thatcher.
(d) Harvey Wilks.

13. What suggests that Jim is only playing along with the two boys in their outrageous escape plan?
(a) He threatens to leave if he has to put himself in physical danger.
(b) He has told another slave about the escapade.
(c) He can unshackle himself at will.
(d) He humors them by going along with the silly, romantic nonsense.

14. Who does Tom say almost spoiled their adventure?
(a) Aunt Sally.
(b) The doctor.
(c) Jim.
(d) Uncle Silas.

15. According to Tom, what is the problem with Jim's captivity?
(a) Getting past the other slaves.
(b) Difficulties have to be invented.
(c) Difficulties could make it impossible to achieve.
(d) Getting across the moat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can't Tom get back up the lightning rod?

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

3. Who is Aunt Sally's sister?

4. Why isn't Jim able to sleep in Chapter 39?

5. Where do Huck and Tom obtain a wire rat trap?

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