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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13 | Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What idea is it that Huck and his friends don't fully understand [when forming their gang and making plans]?
(a) Remuneration.
(b) Redress.
(c) Reconciliation.
(d) Ransom.

2. Why does Huck lose interest in Moses?
(a) Moses is dead and Huck is interested only in the living
(b) Huck is an atheist and hates Bible stories.
(c) He dislikes Moses' character.
(d) The Widow Douglas reads poorly.

3. Name the figurative language used in "the wind was trying to whisper something to me."
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Personification.
(c) Simile.
(d) Synecdoche.

4. Where, on the island, do Huck and Jim hide their belongings?
(a) In a hole dug under a marked tree.
(b) In bundles secured to treetops.
(c) In a cavern.
(d) Inside a hollow log in a clearing.

5. How does Huck augment his and Jim's diet of river fish and shot waterfowl?
(a) He buys cornmeal flour in a village.
(b) He steals chickens and raids gardens for things like watermelons.
(c) He finds food scraps outside restaurants.
(d) He steals oranges and grapefruit.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Huck escape from the cabin he has been locked in for three days?

2. How did Tom and Huck become rich?

3. What word should Huck have used instead of "dolphin"?

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

5. How does Jim react when he first sees Huck in Chapter 8?

(see the answer key)

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