Huckleberry Finn Chapters 11-21a
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This is a two part quiz. Each question is worth 2. 7 points; the text passage is worth 5. 4 points. Your take home paragraph is worth 9 points. ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS!
- 1.Which name is not used as a pseudonym by Huck:
- A.
Louis LeRoi
- B.
Sarah Williams
- C.
Mary Williams
- D.
George Jackson
- 2.This author was symolized by a steamboat wreck
- A.
Lord Byron
- B.
Sir Walter Scott
- C.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
- D.
Walt Whitman
- 3.A wigwam is:
- A.
a kind of steering oar a kind of steering oar
- B.
an ankle length garment
- C.
a canvas triangular shelter
- D.
a thatched domed-shaped dwelling
- 4.The last city in slave territory on the Mississippi Delta is:
- A.
Cairo
- B.
St. Louis
- C.
New Orleans
- D.
Hannibal
- 5.Moral Pragmatisim would agree with which reflection:
- A.
" Nay sir, we are seven."
- B.
"I have never painted an angel because I have never seen one."
- C.
Intuition is a form of the truth, as real as a rock
- D.
Our past histories, not our choices, determine our outcomes.
- 6.Huck tries to save the marooned theives by:
- A.
Leaving them a note
- B.
Building a fire on the aft deck
- C.
Telling a nightwatchman that Jim Hornbeck's niece is on the wreck
- D.
Telling the sheriff that crooks on the steamship have smallpox
- 7.Jim knew this about "King Sollermun" even if he missed the point:
- A.
that he was beheaded
- B.
that the king tried to cut a dollar bill in half
- C.
that he revealed a baby's true mother by threatening to cut the baby in two
- D.
that he was married to one woman for fifty years
- 8.The town where the Ohio River runs into the Mississippi River:
- A.
Cairo
- B.
St. Louis
- C.
Booth's Landing
- D.
Jackson's Island
- 9.The heir to the French throne is known as:
- A.
Prince of Wales
- B.
Thane of Cawdor
- C.
The Duke of Wellington
- D.
The Dauphin
- 10.Huck and Jim find this in an abandoned cabin floating on the river:
- A.
a dead body
- B.
a rattlesnake
- C.
a deed setting Jim free
- D.
a set of dueling pistols
- 11.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is this type of novel:
- A.
Epistolary
- B.
Bildungsroman
- C.
Detective
- D.
Stream of Consciousness
- 12.Mrs. Loftus "catches Huck out" as a result of all of these actions except:
- A.
how he threads a needle
- B.
his throwing motion when he hurls a lead ball at a rat
- C.
how he catches between his legs
- D.
because he scratches himself
- 13.This state does not border on the Mississippi River:?
- A.
Illinois
- B.
Arkansas
- C.
Florida
- D.
Tenessee
- 14.Religious gatherings for country folk in villages often without churches where Presbyterians would travel miles for a series of preacher lead experiences:
- A.
Camp Meetings
- B.
Vaudeville Schows
- C.
Re-enactments of the Nativity
- D.
Celebrations of the Pope
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