Huck Finn Review
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- 1.Which of the following statements sounds like something Tom Sawyer would say?
- A.
a. "A man can't get his rights in a govment like this."
- B.
b. "I've read all the books that gives any information about these things."
- C.
c. "I know the average all around. The average man's a coward."
- D.
d. "I was behind the door, and I was mighty sorry for you, Miss Mary Jane."
- 2.The people on the steamboat try to locate Huck's body by all of the following means except
- A.
a. firing a canon over the water.
- B.
b. floating loaves of bread containing quicksilver.
- C.
c. looking along the brush at the water's edge.
- D.
d. searching the island.
- 3.Who does not try to protect or teach Huck in the early chapters of the book?
- A.
a. Judge Thatcher
- B.
b. Pap Finn
- C.
c. The Widow Douglas
- D.
d. Miss Watson
- 4.When Huck's father is reported to have drowned, Huck knows it was not his father because
- A.
a. his hair was too long.
- B.
b. he was floating on his back.
- C.
c. his clothes were too ragged.
- D.
d. he did not look like Pap Finn.
- 5.The "bad luck" that really results from handling the snake-skin is that
- A.
a. a storm drives Huck and Jim to high ground.
- B.
b. they find a dead man in a floating house.
- C.
c. Jim is bitten by a rattlesnake.
- D.
d. they are forced to leave the island.
- 6.Jim explains that he and Huck missed Cairo, lost their canoe, were run down by the steamboat, and met the king and duke because
- A.
a. Huck handled a rattlesnake skin.
- B.
b. Huck's dead father had not been buried.
- C.
c. Huck fooled Jim about their separation in the fog.
- D.
d. Huck stole chickens that "warn't roosting comfortable."
- 7.Huck assumes which of the following disguises in order to protect Jim?
- A.
a. a boy whose father has smallpox
- B.
b. a boy who fell overboard off the steamboat
- C.
c. a girl with a sick mother, looking for her uncle
- D.
d. Tom Sawyer on a visit to the Phelp's farm
- 8.What is written on the piece of paper that Huck finds in the church?
- A.
a. half-past two, the time of the elopement
- B.
b. nothing; the paper is a bookmark placed in a Bible
- C.
c. a love letter from Sophia Grangerford to Harney Sheperdson
- D.
d. plans for an ambush of the Grangerfords by the Sheperdsons
- 9.Which of the following best describes Huck's feelings toward the king and duke?
- A.
a. He dislikes them but is afraid to contradict their wishes.
- B.
b. He respects them because they can fool people so easily.
- C.
c. He likes them but wishes that they would leave the raft.
- D.
d. He fears them but wants to assist them in their schemes.
- 10."Here was this nigger which I had as good as helped to run away, coming right out flat-footed and saying he would steal his children—children that belonged to a man I didn't even know; a man that hadn't ever done me no harm." This statement reveals the morality
- A.
a. Huck has developed by reasoning things out.
- B.
b. taught to Huck by Pap Finn.
- C.
c. taught by the society in which Huck grew up.
- D.
d. Huck has begun to question.
- 11.Huck becomes accepted as a member of Tom Sawyer's gang by
- A.
a. bribing little Tommy Barnes.
- B.
b. writing his name in blood.
- C.
c. impressing the gang with a wealth of information about robbers.
- D.
d. offering to let the gang kill Miss Watson if he tells any secrets.
- 12.Jim tells Huck his fortune with the aid of
- A.
a. a counterfeit quarter.
- B.
b. a raw Irish potato
- C.
c. a hair ball
- D.
d. the stomach of an ox
- 13.Which of the following shows that the society around Huck attempts to cover its crude nature with false gentility?
- A.
a. Mary Jane Wilks goes to the Lothrop farm so that she will not show that she knows the king and duke are frauds.
- B.
b. After a church service to which they carry guns, the Grangerfords praise a sermon about brotherly love.
- C.
c. Huck and Jim excuse their stealing by vowing not to take crab apples or persimmons.
- D.
d. The members of the vigilance committee keep taking off their hats to scratch their heads and putting their hats back on.
- 14.For Jim, the story of Solomon threatening to cut a child in half shows that
- A.
a. Solomon did not know the value of children because he had so many of them.
- B.
b. Solomon used common sense to solve a difficult problem.
- C.
c. children belong with their parents.
- D.
d. Solomon was a very smart man.
- 15.Huck associates all of the following with "civilizing" except
- A.
a. using polite language.
- B.
b. being at ease and contented.
- C.
c. giving up tobacco.
- D.
d. taking baths and sleeping in a bed.
- 16.Which character "used to paste obituaries and accidents and cases of patient suffering" in her scrapbook?
- A.
a. Miss Watson
- B.
b. Emmeline Grangerford
- C.
c. Judifth Loftus
- D.
d. Mary Jane Wilks
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