Huckleberry Finn Background And Chapters 1-9

How Tom Sawyer signals to Huck in the opening of HF:

• "Oink-oink"

• "Who-Who"

• "cheep- cheep"

• "me-ow"

Huck lives with:

• Miss Watson

• Widow Douglas

• Pap

• Aunt Polly

Huck and Tom each got this amount from Injun Joe's cave:

• $20

• $6,000

• $10,000

• $15,000

The Widow Douglas  was learnin' Huck the Bible story of __________to make a parallel to  her own role:

• Adam & Eve

• Abraham and Isaac

• Satan's fall from heaven

• Moses

Huck and Tom play a trick on this slave:

• Aunt Cora

• Old Zeke

• Jim

• Frederick Douglass

The owner of the slave is:

• Widow Douglas

• Pap

• Judge Thatcher

• Miss Watson

The slave (------)  becomes famous because he claims this:

• Saw the devil

• Escaped and came back

• Had come from a royal African family

• Was rode by witches

To join Tom Sawyer's Gang, Huck had to offer up a replacement hostage who was:

• Becky Thatcher

• The Duke

• Miss Watson

• Aunt Polly

What word confounded the gang so that they did not know how to implement their policy of kidnapping?

• Ransom

• Guillotine

• Pillory

• Press

Samuel Clemens, the real name of Mark Twain, was never a:

• Typesetter

• Congressman

• Newspaper Reporter

• Steamboat Captain

Huck knew that Pap's was not the drowned  body because:

• Pap had written him a letter from California

• Dead men don't float on their backs

• Pap would not go near water

• He was staying in Widow Douglas's basement

When asked why they had seen no Arabs nor elephants on the ambuscade, Tom replied:

• Because they were only visible to certain people

• Because Huck had never read Don Quixote

• Because they were only there for a few sections and fled

• The elephants and Arabs were disguised

Which settings is not part of Huckleberry Finn in these early chapters:

• The Mississippi River

• St. Petersburg, MO

• Washington, D.C.

• Jackson's Island

Huck suspects Pap is back because:

• He sees a cross on the boot heel print in the snow

• Pap shows up for dinner

• He sees Pap in the jailhouse

• Pap goes riding through town on a horse

Huck tries to give all his money away to: 

• Jim

• Pap

• Widow Douglas

• Judge Thatcher

The result of the judge's rehabilitation of Pap is:

• Pap donates Huck's trust fund to orphans

• Pap marries the judge's sister

• The judge determines Pap's reform can only happen with a shotgun

• Pap renounces drinking and thieving and goes to law school

Pap spews a tirade against the government, and this is not included:

• That he wants to become legally married to the Widow Douglas

• That this mulateer can't even be sold as a slave until after six months in the state

• That he has been cheated out of his rightful inheritance

• That he is angry that a black man can vote

The most agreed upon time period for the action and age of the protagonist and narrator:

• 1845/13

• 1861/9

• 1884/15

• 1950/11

Not a characteristic of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:

• It is a Bildungsroman- a coming of age novel

• It is an Epic poem

• It has "racism" as a primary theme

• It uses humor to effect social criticism

Supposedly would help locate a dead body:

• A labrador with goggles and a bait of sardines

• Driftwood with fishhooks embedded and high pitched steam whistle

• Cannon shot over the water or loaf filled with quicksilver

• Using a box with an opening on one end opposite a pinhole and the sun would point to a location

Jim was at first afraid of Huck because:

• He saw Huck with a gun and Jim was a fugitive

• He thought Huck was a ghost

• He thought Huck was a decoy sent to entrap him

• Jim had beeen bitten by a rattlesnake and was delirious when he first saw Huck

The little birds told Jim that:

• Bad luck was coming if he saw them over his left shoulder against the moon

• Fall was coming early

• That it would rain

• A beehive would not have honey the next year

In the abandoned house, they inspected/collected the following - except:

• Barlow knife

• A wanted poster for Pap

• Eight dollars in silver lined inside a coat

• A dead body

Name the group that includes a  northern, free state:

• Alabama, Georgia, Maine, Tenessee

• Delaware, Kentucky, Lousiana, Missouri

• Florida, Arkansas, Texas, Virginia

• South Carolina, Mississippi, North Carolina, Missouri

Not true about the Mississippi River:

• Both slave and free states bordered it

• It flows south

• It is the fourth longest river in the entire world

• It is famous for its pristine, clear water

Huck Finn was banned, but not for one of these reasons:

• It used the incorrect grammar of a young boy

• It employed the word "nigger"

• It used humor rather than serious persepctive

• It upset religious groups who said it set a low moral tone

Not true about Mark Twain

• He had a home in Hartford, CT

• Two daughters and a wife pre-deceased him

• He was a remarkable genius at forward looking investments for a writer

• His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Not an aspect of Twains literature:

• Depictions of disreputable characters

• Use of satire and dramatic irony

• Main character is always a person of noble birth in disguise

• Authentic dialect

Not true of a Tall Tale:

• Usually main character is of mythic like proportions and accomplished superhuman feats

• Hero always lives beyond the story, waiting in some mysterious place to be recalled one day

• Often helped or accompanied by an animal

• Often explains familiar things much as Greek myths used to do: like the Rockies, or origins of a waterfall.

All of Mark Twain's books were sold in bookstores only:

• True

• False

The Garden of Eden was on the path to destruction because Adam saw his reflection in a pool of water and became conscious that he was superior to Eve.  

• True

• False

A primary difference between a Farce and a Satire is that a Satire is meant to render serious social commentary:

• True

• False

Discuss the most  important ideas suggested in this painting and identify the artist:

The explosion of the steamboat Sultana did not:

• Kill up to 1800 people

• Take place right after the Civil War

• Have any possibility of terrorist or intentional sabotage

• Kill Mark Twain's brother, Henry

Punctuate and add capital letters and line changes as necessary (separate paper): How do you come to be here Jim and how'd you get here he looked pretty uneasy and didn't say anythng for a minute then he says maybe I better not tell why Jim well dey's reasons but you wouldn't tell on me ef I 'uz to tell you would you Huck blamed if I would Jim well, I b'lieve you, Huck  I - I run off Jim!

Explain the importance of each word of the title in "My Papa's Waltz."

Explain this line in a Brenda poem: "the ending broke my heart before it came."