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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the name of the sunken steamer?
(a) The Walter Stott.
(b) The Miss Charlotte.
(c) The Nellie.
(d) The Walter Scott.
2. Why do the murderers defer leaving in the skiff?
(a) They want to get Turner's share of the money.
(b) They decide to have a pot of whiskey first.
(c) They want to get rid of Turner first.
(d) They are worried about the river currents.
3. Why isn't Lawyer Bell present in Chapter 25?
(a) He is on holiday in New Orleans.
(b) He is on business in Louisville.
(c) He is out hunting.
(d) He is dead.
4. What does Huck call "the horriblest looking outrage I ever see"?
(a) The King and the Duke buying clothes with their swindled money.
(b) Jim dressed up and painted as a sick Arab.
(c) Slaves being beaten by a cruel overseer.
(d) Jim begging to be tied up again.
5. Which of these statements is closest to a description of Huck's father?
(a) He has a brutal face with a broken nose and a big scar on his left cheek.
(b) He has a ghostly white face, dribbles through broken teeth and has eyes that once might have been intelligent.
(c) He has wide lips, shaggy hair and very bad breath.
(d) He has a white face, long greasy beard and dark black eyes.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which people did Huck and Tom intend to ambush?
2. What does Jim confide to Huck in Chapter 23?
3. Why is Huck pleased he chose to hide behind the curtain and not under the bed in Chapter 26?
4. What was Peter Wilks's occupation?
5. When the King questions him in Chapter 27, what lie does Huck tell?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what sense does Jim reach his moral nadir when he considers buying his children from their owner?
2. Why does Huck consider moving the money from its hiding-place in Peter Wilks' coffin?
3. Comment on Huck's experience of prayer in Chapter 3.
4. How does Huck discover that the local authorities are in pursuit of Jim?
5. What traits does Huck demonstrate in Chapter 7?
6. Comment on the capacity for fantasy possessed by each main character as seen by Chapter 2 in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
7. How seriously should readers take the disclaimer "By Order of the Author"?
8. What is the special relevance of the catastrophe related in Chapter 18?
9. What is significant about the murder of Boggs?
10. Comment on the significance of Huck's practical joke upon Jim.
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