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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are loaves of bread floating down the river?
(a) People believe bread thrown in the water will prevent more drownings.
(b) An angry chef has thrown loaves of bread from a river steamer.
(c) A bread cart has fallen off a bridge.
(d) People believe bread dabbed with quicksilver will float to a corpse.

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

3. How do Huck and Jim enter the wrecked ship?
(a) They climb onto the larboard deck and go down a ladder.
(b) Through a hole in the stern.
(c) Through the forward skylight.
(d) By climbing the paddle-wheel.

4. Who is the servant, Adolphus?
(a) Tom Sawyer.
(b) Jim.
(c) The Duke.
(d) Huck Finn.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What explanation does 'Sarah/Mary' Williams give for her journey?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Twain satirize popular literature in Chapter 17?

2. What traits does Huck demonstrate in Chapter 7?

3. How seriously should readers take the disclaimer "By Order of the Author"?

4. In what way does the King act opportunistically for his own ends?

5. How do Jim and Huck survive as they travel down the river on the raft?

6. Why does Huck consider moving the money from its hiding-place in Peter Wilks' coffin?

7. How do readers know that Huck feels deeply for Mary Jane?

8. What is Huck's initial attitude towards Jim?

9. In Chapter 13, why does Huck again find it necessary to adopt a disguise?

10. Comment upon Huck's observation that, in the present situation, "the truth is better, and actuly safer, than a lie."

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