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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one symbol that the fog represents?
(a) Journeying into the unknown.
(b) A supernatural presence.
(c) The confusion inside Huck's head.
(d) The power of the river.

2. Who is the other person Huck tells Mary Jane in Chapter 28 would be in big trouble?
(a) Jim.
(b) Joanna.
(c) Harney Shepherdson.
(d) Tom Sawyer.

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

4. Why does Huck want Mary Jane to leave before breakfast?
(a) He is afraid Mary Jane will confront the King and slap his face.
(b) He knows the expression on her face will show the King and the Duke that she is onto them.
(c) He knows there is better food at the Lothrop place.
(d) She'll be able to arrive at the Lothrops' place before the heat of the day.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What time is it when the boys become too tired to carry on?

2. What calamity befalls Huck and Jim at the end of Chapter 16?

3. Huck's narrative includes the words: "but I was over the shoal water now." This is an example of what sort of figurative language?

4. What separates Jim and Huck in the fog?

5. At what point do Huck and Tom enter Jim's cabin?

(see the answer key)

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