Huckleberry Finn Chapters 11-21 B
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- 1.When an author intends humorous social criticism, it is known as:
- A.
Science Fiction
- B.
Parody
- C.
Tragedy
- D.
Tall Tale
- 2.This was found in a barrel chasing a raft:
- A.
A wanted poster for Jim
- B.
Pap's head preserved in molasses
- C.
Bags of old coins
- D.
Dick Allbright's baby
- 3.Jim planned to do this when he got to free territory:
- A.
buy his wife and two children
- B.
find the man who sold him into slavery
- C.
get a new identity
- D.
get a boat to England
- 4.Huck befriends this boy near to his own age after his raft is sunk:
- A.
George Jackson
- B.
Harney Shepardson
- C.
Buck Grangerford
- D.
Stephen Dowling Bots
- 5.
- A.
Used Walter Scott as his automatic name
- B.
He always used Pap's real name
- C.
Looked on an envelope at a "handy" name
- D.
Asked his new friend to spell it Asked his new friend to spell it
- 6.Fate of Stephen Dowling Bots
- A.
shot in the back
- B.
died of measles
- C.
fell down a well
- D.
burned
- 7.This is Buck's fate in Huck Finn:
- A.
Emmeline immortalizes him in a poem
- B.
he elopes with a Shepardson
- C.
he is killed in the feud
- D.
he is chased by a dead baby in a barrel
- 8.Jim wonders if the "moon laid the stars" and Huck, the realist, compares that, less romatically, to:
- A.
scraps after a meal
- B.
frog laying eggs
- C.
gravy at the bottom of a pan
- D.
mud settling in Mississippi water
- 9.The Duke's name gets corrupted to this (perhaps more fitting):
- A.
Doctor
- B.
Looie
- C.
Dolphin
- D.
Bilgewater
- 10.A collection was taken for this "noble cause" by the frauds:
- A.
pirate reform
- B.
black minstrel performers
- C.
Harney Shepardson's dead brother
- D.
Emmeline Grangerford's tombstone
- 11.Which one of the following Shakespeare plays is either alluded to or referenced in HF thus far?
- A.
Romeo and Juliet
- B.
The Importance of Being Earnest
- C.
The Cherry Orchard
- D.
Death of a Salesman
- 12.Person not killed in the book so far:
- A.
Dick Allbright's baby
- B.
Buck Grangerford
- C.
Harney Shepardson
- 13.How does Huck dissuade the two bounty hunters in the boat from approaching Jim on the raft shortly before the raft is destroyed by the steamboat?
- A.
he offers them two $20 gold pieces
- B.
he hints that his father on the raft has smallpox
- C.
he tells them that Jim is mentally deranged
- D.
he tells them the raft is rigged with dynamite
- 14.How do Huck and Jim rationalize the disappearance of their canoe shortly after Huck's being lost in the fog?
- A.
Continued bad luck from the snakeskin
- B.
Thieves stole it
- C.
The robbers from the Sir Walter Scott took revenge
- D.
Pap returned and has trailed them
- 15.All of these trouble Huck's conscience momentarily except:
- A.
Jim was going to steal his own children
- B.
he was helping cheat Miss Watson out of property
- C.
he led Jim into danger by going onto the Sir Walter Scott
- D.
he felt badly about the rattlesnake skin
- 16.Twain "borrowed" some boasting done on a raft from a Tall Tale concerning this "king of the riverboat men."
- A.
Uncle Tom
- B.
Mike Fink
- C.
Davy Crockett
- D.
John Henry
- 17.Christian music created by enslaved Afro Amercians prior to the Civil War:
- A.
Jazz
- B.
Blues
- C.
Ragtime
- D.
Negro Spirituals
- 18.Not true of "We Are Seven":
- A.
Death separates us from the living
- B.
A little girl tells the story
- C.
A sister and brother are dead
- D.
Two siblings have departed and two have gone to sea
- 19.Explain the poetic devices used in this line: "And each slow dusk a drawing down of blinds."
- 20.
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