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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. What is the slave guard afraid of?
(a) Being deprived of food.
(b) Silas Phelps.
(c) Witches.
(d) Jim.

2. Why does Huck say in Chapter 32 that he needs to make a trip to town?
(a) To collect money.
(b) To collect his baggage.
(c) To meet another steamboat.
(d) To exercise the horse.

3. For what reason is Peter Wilks' body to be exhumed?
(a) To be utterly certain they have buried the right man in the right grave.
(b) To retrieve the money bag from the coffin.
(c) To see if there is a tattoo on his chest.
(d) To see if there is a tattoo on his knee.

4. What secret does Jim reveal at the end of the book?
(a) That Huck's father shot two of the Grangerfords.
(b) That Huck's father was the dead man inside the floating house.
(c) That there is more money hidden on the raft.
(d) That he is really an African prince and can reward all of them.

5. How many mottoes does Tom devise for Jim's coat-of-arms?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Ten.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 30, what do the King and the Duke accuse each other of doing?

2. How does Jim receive his food while in captivity?

3. At what point do Huck and Tom enter Jim's cabin?

4. Where does Huck hide the raft in Chapter 31?

5. Where do Huck and Tom obtain a wire rat trap?

Short Essay Questions

1. What steps in Huck's journey to maturity are dealt with Chapter 31?

2. What precautions are taken in the Phelps household after the notes are received?

3. What techniques does Twain employ Chapter 35 to create humor?

4. Comment on the way in which Tom and Huck confuse the slave who is guarding Jim.

5. Comment on Tom's proposed plans to recompense and appease Jim, who has suffered the most from Tom's absurd endeavors.

6. By Chapter 38, what is Jim's attitude to the efforts being made on his behalf?

7. Is there any way in which Tom Sawyer's character appears a little unpleasant at this point in the novel (by Chapter 35)?

8. What is Jim's final act of kindness towards Huck?

9. How does Huck intend to deal with the problem of the arrival of the real Tom Sawyer?

10. What is ironic about Huck's comment to Tom: "Your head gets leveler and leveler all the time"?

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