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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) Supper-time.
(b) Two in the morning.
(c) Around midnight.
(d) Four in the morning.

2. What types of snakes do Huck and Tom catch?
(a) Adders and garter snakes.
(b) House snakes and swamp moccasins.
(c) Garter snakes and house snakes.
(d) Rattlesnakes and taipans.

3. How does the doctor rate Huck as a liar?
(a) Very creative at it.
(b) He is unaware that Huck is telling lies.
(c) Excellently.
(d) Poorly.

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

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

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

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

8. What makes Huck squirm in Chapter 30?
(a) Hearing his lie about the Wilks slaves being repeated.
(b) The dinner that has disagreed with him.
(c) Seeing Jim dressed as an Arab.
(d) Thinking about the lies he's been telling.

9. In Chapter 37, what does Uncle Silas promise to do next day?
(a) Look for his shirt.
(b) Plant more watermelons.
(c) Pray harder.
(d) Stop up the rats' holes.

10. 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 New Orleans.
(c) On the Susan Powell from Cincinnati.
(d) On the Beagle from Darwin.

11. Who works out that Jim is confined in the ash hopper?
(a) Harney Shepherdson.
(b) Silas Marner.
(c) Huck Finn.
(d) Tom Sawyer.

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

13. How soon do the King and the Duke make up their quarrel in Chapter 30?
(a) In an hour.
(b) In half an hour.
(c) By next morning.
(d) They don't: they become sworn enemies.

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

15. What does Huck see behind the smokehouse in Chapter 35?
(a) A case knife.
(b) An old rusty saw.
(c) Someone snooping.
(d) The Duke.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Huck re-enter the house in Chapter 34?

3. What does the Duke threaten to do to the King if he lies again?

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

5. According to Tom, how do prisoners always water their plants?

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