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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the King do after his confession?
(a) He tells jokes till everyone is asleep.
(b) He cries.
(c) He retired to the wigwam with a bottle.
(d) He goes for a cleansing swim, symbolic of beginning a new life.

2. How does Jim react when he first sees Huck in Chapter 8?
(a) He's angry and afraid of being discovered.
(b) He's relieved and happy Huck is alive.
(c) He thinks Huck is the Devil and is desperately afraid.
(d) He's frightened as he genuinely believes Huck is a ghost.

3. When the King questions him in Chapter 27, what lie does Huck tell?
(a) He claims to have seen Jim and Mary Jane talking to a strange man in a yellow coat.
(b) He claims that the undertaken sneaked into the King's room just before the funeral.
(c) He claims that 'the niggers were in the King's room'.
(d) He claims that Joanna and Susan were in the King's room.

4. Who has "no more smile to him than there is to a ham"?
(a) The undertaker.
(b) The King.
(c) Jim.
(d) Peter.

5. What explanation does Huck give for having the gun in his hands?
(a) He tells his father someone was trying to break into the cabin.
(b) He says he was about to go and shoot a wild hog.
(c) He tells his father he was being helpful by cleaning the gun.
(d) He says he was checking to see if it was loaded.

Short Answer Questions

1. How soon do the King and the Duke make up their quarrel in Chapter 30?

2. Why does Huck take a canoe up a 'chute' in Chapter 19?

3. What excuse does Huck give the King for his flight from the cemetery?

4. Where does Huck go to cook his supper in Chapter 8?

5. Who says: "It's lovely to live on a raft"?

(see the answer key)

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