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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What forms the basis of the humorous conversation in Chapter 14?
(a) Huck telling Jim more tall stories.
(b) Huck's garbled retelling of matter he has just read about.
(c) Jim's accent.
(d) Huck's American vernacular.

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

3. Who suggests telling Uncle Harvey about Mary Jane and the mumps?
(a) The Duke.
(b) Joanna.
(c) Susan.
(d) Huck.

4. Why are Huck and Jim unable to land the catfish they caught?
(a) The hook comes adrift.
(b) The fish pulls Jim into the water and he has to be rescued.
(c) The line breaks.
(d) The fish is too enormous for them to handle.

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

6. Who was allowed to sleep in Emmeline Grangerford's room?
(a) No one.
(b) Guests from New Orleans.
(c) Huck.
(d) Harney Shepherson.

7. What explanation does 'Sarah/Mary' Williams give for her journey?
(a) She has to tell Uncle Abner that her mother is ill and out of money.
(b) She is on her way to visit a sick aunt.
(c) She was bringing money to Uncle Abner, but was robbed.
(d) She is running away from an arranged marriage.

8. Why is his father annoyed with Huck in Chapter 5?
(a) Huck put his money where his father couldn't get it.
(b) He doesn't like Huck's airs, nor does he like Huck being educated.
(c) Huck is too friendly with Jim.
(d) Huck is not progressing quickly enough at school.

9. How do Huck and Jim first conceal themselves on the Illinois shore?
(a) They hide in a cottonwood thicket.
(b) They dig a shelter on the riverbank.
(c) They hide in a ditch.
(d) They stay on the raft that they have covered with branches.

10. Why do Huck and Jim find themselves riding the river through thick fog in Chapter 15?
(a) The sapling they use as a mooring is not strong enough to hold the raft.
(b) The fog has come down too suddenly for them to get to shore.
(c) They are embarking on a new adventure and want to take risks.
(d) The mooring rope has been lost.

11. What has been bringing many people to town in Chapter 21?
(a) A traveling freak show.
(b) A performance of opera.
(c) A salesman selling a new embrocation.
(d) A circus.

12. How does Huck give himself thinking time when questions about England become awkward?
(a) He says there's a mouse under the table.
(b) He pretends to choke on a chicken bone.
(c) He pretends to sneeze.
(d) He has a drink of water.

13. 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 Joanna and Susan were in the King's room.
(c) He claims that the undertaken sneaked into the King's room just before the funeral.
(d) He claims that 'the niggers were in the King's room'.

14. What is the alias Huck uses at the Grangerfords?
(a) Tom Sawyer.
(b) George Jackson.
(c) George Jameson.
(d) Andrew Jackson.

15. How do they all make good their escape from the villagers in Chapter 23?
(a) They steel horses and ride out of town.
(b) They run off to the woods and creep to the raft later.
(c) They sneak back to the raft and set off down the river.
(d) They lock the villagers in the hall and run for the raft.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Jim alerted to the coming lightning storm?

2. What is the 'good place' to which Miss Watson keeps referring?

3. Name the figurative language used in "the wind was trying to whisper something to me."

4. How many logs worth selling do Pap and Huck find?

5. What is the origin of the feud between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons?

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