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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 38.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Tom, how long did the Marseilles prisoner take to dig out, and where did he emerge?
(a) Thirty-nine years to dig his way to China.
(b) Two hours to dig through to the prison kitchen.
(c) Thirty-seven years to dig his way to China.
(d) Thirty-seven years to dig in a circle around the prison and arrive where he started.

3. Why are the streets of the 'one horse town' empty?
(a) It is siesta time.
(b) Most people have gone to the camp meeting.
(c) It is a ghost town.
(d) The town is under quarantine.

4. Where was Aunt Sally's apron in Chapter 37?
(a) She was wearing it.
(b) Hanging on a chair.
(c) On the clothes-line.
(d) In a closet.

5. How can a snag in the river be recognized?
(a) By a swirl and ripple in the water.
(b) Through the appearance of a streak in the water.
(c) By the height of the waves.
(d) By the way it sticks out of the water.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What forms the basis of the humorous conversation in Chapter 14?

3. What kind of enterprise does the Phelps family have?

4. According to Tom, how do prisoners always water their plants?

5. What is the problem with Jim keeping a journal?

(see the answer key)

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