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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to what Huck tells the King and the Duke, where did his parents come from?
(a) Orange County in California.
(b) Pike County in Illinois.
(c) Carp County in Illinois.
(d) Pike County in Missouri.

2. How does Huck's practical joke on Jim backfire?
(a) Jim is so angry that he attacks Huck.
(b) Jim turns the tables by putting live coals in Huck's bed.
(c) Huck is bitten by a rattlesnake.
(d) Jim is bitten by an actual snake.

3. Which of these statements is closest to a description of Huck's father?
(a) He has wide lips, shaggy hair and very bad breath.
(b) He has a ghostly white face, dribbles through broken teeth and has eyes that once might have been intelligent.
(c) He has a white face, long greasy beard and dark black eyes.
(d) He has a brutal face with a broken nose and a big scar on his left cheek.

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

5. How has Jim been attempting to test the authenticity of the King's story?
(a) By asking him about Marie Antionette.
(b) By inspecting him for a regal birthmark.
(c) By trying to get him to speak French.
(d) By asking him about his sea voyage to America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Huck's reaction to the widow's prayer?

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

3. What injury has the real William Wilks sustained?

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

5. Who suggests telling Uncle Harvey about Mary Jane and the mumps?

(see the answer key)

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