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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Huck think is "the lonesomest sound in the whole world"?
(a) The hum of a spinning-wheel.
(b) The baying of hounds.
(c) The lapping of water at midnight.
(d) The cry of a whippoorwill.

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

6. How many gun-toting farmers were in the sitting-room in Chapter 40?
(a) Ten.
(b) Five.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Fifty.

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

8. What secret does Jim reveal at the end of the book?
(a) That there is more money hidden on the raft.
(b) That he is really an African prince and can reward all of them.
(c) That Huck's father shot two of the Grangerfords.
(d) That Huck's father was the dead man inside the floating house.

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

10. What is Tom's reaction when he hears that there are men with guns after the gang?
(a) He says they have gone too far and are in danger of being killed.
(b) He is excited and energized.
(c) He is very nervous but determined to press on.
(d) He is terrified and questions the wisdom of the enterprize.

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

12. How does Huck re-enter the house in Chapter 34?
(a) Through the back door.
(b) Through a side window.
(c) Through the front door
(d) By climbing the lightning rod.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why will Huck be the first to go into Indian territory?

2. What suggests that Jim is only playing along with the two boys in their outrageous escape plan?

3. Who is Aunt Sally's sister?

4. How do Huck and Tom exit the house in Chapter 36?

5. Where will Huck be able to find Jim?

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