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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) Redress.
(b) Remuneration.
(c) Reconciliation.
(d) Ransom.

2. As he chases Huck around the cabin, brandishing a knife, what does Pappy call his son?
(a) The Devil incarnate.
(b) A freak of nature who belongs in Hell.
(c) The Angel of Death.
(d) A right nasty varmint.

3. Whose idea of the after-life does Huck favor?
(a) The widow's.
(b) His father's.
(c) Miss Watson's.
(d) Tom Sawyer's.

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

5. What illness is supposed to be the problem at the Proctors'?
(a) Mumps.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Scarlet fever.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the source of the commotion in the cellar in Chapter 27?

2. Why does Huck lose interest in Moses?

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

4. According to what Huck tells the King and the Duke, where did his parents come from?

5. Who has "no more smile to him than there is to a ham"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Twainagain explore the idea of conscience in Chapter 23?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What traits does Huck demonstrate in Chapter 7?

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

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

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

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