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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 idea is it that Huck and his friends don't fully understand [when forming their gang and making plans]?
(a) Remuneration.
(b) Ransom.
(c) Reconciliation.
(d) Redress.

2. How does Huck's practical joke on Jim backfire?
(a) Jim is bitten by an actual snake.
(b) Jim is so angry that he attacks Huck.
(c) Jim turns the tables by putting live coals in Huck's bed.
(d) Huck is bitten by a rattlesnake.

3. According to what Huck tells the King and the Duke, where did his parents come from?
(a) Orange County in California.
(b) Carp County in Illinois.
(c) Pike County in Illinois.
(d) Pike County in Missouri.

4. Which alias does the Duke adopt for the performance?
(a) An actor called Billie Langtry.
(b) An actor called David Garrick the Elder.
(c) An actor called David Garrick the Younger.
(d) An actor called Thoman Kean the incredible.

5. How do they all make good their escape from the villagers in Chapter 23?
(a) They steel horses and ride out of town.
(b) They run off to the woods and creep to the raft later.
(c) They sneak back to the raft and set off down the river.
(d) They lock the villagers in the hall and run for the raft.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Peter Wilks's occupation?

2. What is the main accusation Colonel Sherburn levels at the crowd?

3. What does Huck do with the canoe when he reaches Jackson's Island?

4. Name the figurative language used in "the wind was trying to whisper something to me."

5. Why is Huck feeling "mean and miserable" in Chapter 15?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do readers know that Huck feels deeply for Mary Jane?

2. Comment on Huck's experience of prayer in Chapter 3.

3. What is the difference between the fraud practiced by the self-styled 'duke' and 'king' and the lies told by Huck?

4. In what ways are the scoundrels able to gain favor with the Wilks girls and the townsfolk?

5. What important difference between Huck and Jim is suggested during the conversation about King Solomon?

6. What is the psychological card Colonel Sherburn plays so successfully during the confrontation?

7. How does Joanna demonstrate that she has intelligence and a healthy skepticism?

8. What makes the river a dangerous, as well as an idyllic, place to be?

9. In what way can the character of Pappy be seen purely as social commentary?

10. What is the special relevance of the catastrophe related in Chapter 18?

(see the answer keys)

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