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

2. What does Jim confide to Huck in Chapter 23?
(a) That he is glad to be away from his family because the children are noisy and disobedient.
(b) That he is really a descendent of Thomas Jefferson.
(c) That he stole money and jewelry from Miss Watson and has hidden these on Jackson Island.
(d) That he didn't realize scarlet fever had made his daughter deaf and punished her for not obeying him.

3. In Chapter 13, what is Jim's attitude to the adventure he and Huck have just experienced?
(a) Enthusiastic. He can't wait for the next opportunity, though he does have some criticism.
(b) Ambivalent. He is uncertain about the moral status of what they have just done.
(c) Negative. He didn't enjoy it and doesn't want similar adventures.
(d) Compliant. He likes Huck to lead, enjoyed the adventure and falls in with Huck's ideas.

4. Why is Huck feeling "mean and miserable" in Chapter 15?
(a) He is hungry and cold.
(b) He is lonely.
(c) He knows he has been mean to Jim.
(d) He is troubled by his conscience.

5. What has been bringing many people to town in Chapter 21?
(a) A traveling freak show.
(b) A salesman selling a new embrocation.
(c) A performance of opera.
(d) A circus.

Short Answer Questions

1. As he chases Huck around the cabin, brandishing a knife, what does Pappy call his son?

2. Who is responsible for tending the door on the night of the special performance in Chapter 23?

3. How does Jim react when he first sees Huck in Chapter 8?

4. How does Huck give himself thinking time when questions about England become awkward?

5. What first alerts Mrs. Loftus to the fact that 'Sarah/Mary' is a boy?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 13, why does Huck again find it necessary to adopt a disguise?

2. How do Jim and Huck survive as they travel down the river on the raft?

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

4. What makes Huck ashamed of his humanity in Chapter 24?

5. What is Huck's initial attitude towards Jim?

6. Why does Huck consider moving the money from its hiding-place in Peter Wilks' coffin?

7. Comment on the significance of Huck's practical joke upon Jim.

8. Comment on the capacity for fantasy possessed by each main character as seen by Chapter 2 in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

9. How does Huck discover that the local authorities are in pursuit of Jim?

10. Comment upon Huck's observation that, in the present situation, "the truth is better, and actuly safer, than a lie."

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