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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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) The footprints are unusually large and heavy.
(d) There are additional marks made by a spur.

4. Who has "no more smile to him than there is to a ham"?
(a) The King.
(b) Peter.
(c) Jim.
(d) The undertaker.

5. Why does Huck want Mary Jane to leave before breakfast?
(a) She'll be able to arrive at the Lothrops' place before the heat of the day.
(b) He knows there is better food at the Lothrop place.
(c) He knows the expression on her face will show the King and the Duke that she is onto them.
(d) He is afraid Mary Jane will confront the King and slap his face.

6. What first alerts Mrs. Loftus to the fact that 'Sarah/Mary' is a boy?
(a) His fingernails are dirty.
(b) Huck does not thread a needle in a feminine way.
(c) She sees that he has some fuzz on his cheeks and chin.
(d) He doesn't walk daintily in a dress.

7. In Chapter 13, what is Jim's attitude to the adventure he and Huck have just experienced?
(a) Negative. He didn't enjoy it and doesn't want similar adventures.
(b) Compliant. He likes Huck to lead, enjoyed the adventure and falls in with Huck's ideas.
(c) Enthusiastic. He can't wait for the next opportunity, though he does have some criticism.
(d) Ambivalent. He is uncertain about the moral status of what they have just done.

8. Where had the Grangerfords' beautiful oil cloth table cover come from?
(a) Minneapolis.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Cairo.
(d) New York.

9. What is the main accusation Colonel Sherburn levels at the crowd?
(a) Racial prejudice.
(b) Cowardice.
(c) Poor dress standards.
(d) A negligent attitude to their church-going.

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

11. Why is Huck feeling "mean and miserable" in Chapter 15?
(a) He is hungry and cold.
(b) He is troubled by his conscience.
(c) He is lonely.
(d) He knows he has been mean to Jim.

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

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

14. What does Huck do with the canoe when he reaches Jackson's Island?
(a) He scuttles it.
(b) He conceals it under willow branches.
(c) He lets it drift down the river.
(d) He hauls it way up the bank and hides it in some woods.

15. How was Colonel Grangerford attired on Sundays?
(a) In his miliraty uniform.
(b) In a blue tailcoat with brass buttons on it.
(c) In a scarlet smoking jacket and matching silk carpet slippers.
(d) In a suit of dazzling pure white.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Huck go to cook his supper in Chapter 8?

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

3. What does Jim confide to Huck in Chapter 23?

4. Where, on the island, do Huck and Jim hide their belongings?

5. Huck's narrative includes the words: "but I was over the shoal water now." This is an example of what sort of figurative language?

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