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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. How does Huck augment his and Jim's diet of river fish and shot waterfowl?
(a) He buys cornmeal flour in a village.
(b) He steals oranges and grapefruit.
(c) He steals chickens and raids gardens for things like watermelons.
(d) He finds food scraps outside restaurants.

2. What is the origin of the feud between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons?
(a) No one seems to know, as it started so long ago.
(b) There was a dispute over the river landing stage.
(c) There was a romance between a Shepherdson and a Grangerford.
(d) There was a dispute over land.

3. How do Huck and Jim enter the wrecked ship?
(a) Through a hole in the stern.
(b) They climb onto the larboard deck and go down a ladder.
(c) Through the forward skylight.
(d) By climbing the paddle-wheel.

4. In Jim's eyes, how is Huck different?
(a) Jim notes that Huck has little care for money.
(b) Jim thinks Huck is braver than anyone else he knows.
(c) Jim says Huck is 'true blue' and is helping him.
(d) Jim says Huck is the only 'white' person who has ever honored a promise to him.

5. What was Peter Wilks's occupation?
(a) Printer.
(b) Tanner.
(c) Baker.
(d) Doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Huck do with his money?

2. Why do Huck and Jim leave the baby's bottle in the house?

3. What is the alias Huck uses at the Grangerfords?

4. Who is the other person Huck tells Mary Jane in Chapter 28 would be in big trouble?

5. What is the name of the sunken steamer?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Twain satirize popular literature in Chapter 17?

2. In what sense does Jim reach his moral nadir when he considers buying his children from their owner?

3. In what way does the King act opportunistically for his own ends?

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

5. What is significant about the murder of Boggs?

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

7. How seriously should readers take the disclaimer "By Order of the Author"?

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

9. What traits does Huck demonstrate in Chapter 7?

10. What is ironic about Jim claiming that a snakeskin brings bad luck?

(see the answer keys)

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