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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people are killed trying to stop a couple from running off to get married?

2. How much money was an older man taking in when he ran a revival business?

3. Who does Jim use as an example in his language lessons for the children?

4. In Part One, Chapter 2, to how many children besides his daughter does Jim give a language lesson?

5. Who taught Jim to work the mules, fix the wagon wheels, and fix the porch?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part One, Chapter 1, from where and how are Huck and Tom watching Jim?

2. What happens when Jim finds Huck in Part One, Chapter 17?

3. How does Little George get Jim a pencil?

4. How and why does Jim send Huck into town?

5. How does Jim realize that he and Huck have been separated in Part One?

6. What do Huck and Tom do while Jim pretends to sleep?

7. Why does Jim get sick on Jackson Island?

8. Why is Jim concerned when Huck tells him that he faked his death?

9. What happened to a man named McIntosh in St. Louis?

10. How do Huck and Jim escape when some men come upon them in Part One?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Huck thinks that he might be stealing when he does not try to return Jim to Miss Watson. Why is it a struggle for Huck to understand right and wrong?

Essay Topic 2

Code-switching is when a person modifies their speech, behavior, or appearance to adapt to culture or societal norms. How and why do Jim and other slaves code switch around whites?

Essay Topic 3

A character arc is the inner journey of a character in a book. What is Jim’s character arc, and what situations influence his growth and the person he becomes?

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