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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What news does Mrs. Loftus give Huck regarding his 'murder'?
(a) Jim is a suspect.
(b) Miss Watson is engaged to be married.
(c) Judge Thatcher is a suspect.
(d) Pappy has accused Jim.

2. What is the origin of the feud between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons?
(a) No one seems to know, as it started so long ago.
(b) There was a dispute over the river landing stage.
(c) There was a dispute over land.
(d) There was a romance between a Shepherdson and a Grangerford.

3. How is Jim alerted to the coming lightning storm?
(a) He goes into a trance and sees a vision of the coming storm.
(b) He has an astute observation of birds.
(c) He understands clouds and thunderheads.
(d) He feels a change in the atmosphere and smells ozone.

4. What is Huck's reaction to the widow's prayer?
(a) He ridicules prayer because he can't see how it helps people.
(b) He takes it seriously and vows to attend church.
(c) He decides to test prayer by praying for impossible things.
(d) He takes it seriously and goes off to the forest to think about it

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?
(a) Personification.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Exaggeration.
(d) Simile.

6. In what way is Huck's time with his father spoiled?
(a) His father beats him frequently.
(b) They run out of money.
(c) They never catch any fish.
(d) His father threatens him with a shotgun.

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

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

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

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

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

12. Where does Huck take refuge during the gunfight after Sophia's elopement?
(a) In his canoe.
(b) Under the wood heap.
(c) In a tree.
(d) In Emeline's bedroom.

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

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

15. As he chases Huck around the cabin, brandishing a knife, what does Pappy call his son?
(a) A freak of nature who belongs in Hell.
(b) The Angel of Death.
(c) A right nasty varmint.
(d) The Devil incarnate.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to what Huck tells the King and the Duke, where did his parents come from?

2. Where had the Grangerfords' beautiful oil cloth table cover come from?

3. In his stories, what does Jim tell people about his five-cent piece?

4. How does Huck's practical joke on Jim backfire?

5. Where does Colonel Sherburn stand to protect himself in Chapter 22?

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