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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the King lay the blame for the missing money?

2. What is Mrs. Hotchkiss's opinion of Jim?

3. What does the King do after his confession?

4. Why will Huck be the first to go into Indian territory?

5. Who is the stranger from Hicksville?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does Huck get more than he's bargained for at the Phelps farm?

2. What human vice ironically provides the means for Huck and the con men to escape after the Wilks fraud?

3. Who is made a scapegoat in the matter of the spoons and the rats?

4. What precautions are taken in the Phelps household after the notes are received?

5. In what way does his account of the con men's humiliation reinforce that Huck's character is maturing?

6. What is ironic about Huck's comment to Tom: "Your head gets leveler and leveler all the time"?

7. How does Tom overreach himself in his elaborate construction of fantasy in Chapter 39?

8. Is there any way in which Tom Sawyer's character appears a little unpleasant at this point in the novel (by Chapter 35)?

9. How does Huck feel when he glimpses the King and the Duke rowing fast towards the raft in Chapter 29?

10. By what means does Twain resolve the complicated story that is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Much of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is satirical. Identify two satirical targets in the novel and demonstrate your understanding of Twain's satirical technique in presenting his point of view. Write an essay of discussion. Remember that satirical targets can be individual people, groups of people, institutions, ideologies, attitudes.

Essay Topic 2

Romantic imagination can be creative. In the character of Tom Sawyer, it is merely imitative. Discuss with close reference to the text.

Essay Topic 3

The action in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn teeters between the comic and the tragic. Do you agree? Refer to specific incidents.

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