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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17 | Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the origin of the feud between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons?
(a) There was a dispute over the river landing stage.
(b) There was a dispute over land.
(c) No one seems to know, as it started so long ago.
(d) There was a romance between a Shepherdson and a Grangerford.

2. Why do Huck and Jim leave the baby's bottle in the house?
(a) It contains sour milk and would be diffficult to clean.
(b) It is broken.
(c) They think it contains poison.
(d) It is too small to use as a water bottle.

3. What is unusual about the tracks Huck finds in the snow?
(a) There is a cross in the left boot heel.
(b) There is a cross in the right boot heel.
(c) There are additional marks made by a spur.
(d) The footprints are unusually large and heavy.

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

5. What is the oracle that Jim consults?
(a) A chicken's liver.
(b) A hairball.
(c) A crystal ball.
(d) The way a toad reacts when it is prodded with a stick.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which people did Huck and Tom intend to ambush?

2. What action does Jim fear will bring bad luck?

3. Why do the murderers defer leaving in the skiff?

4. What is the alias Huck uses at the Grangerfords?

5. In Chapter 13, what is Jim's attitude to the adventure he and Huck have just experienced?

(see the answer key)

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