Huck Finn Review!

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  1. Huck Finn was first published in..

    2. Your answer:
    1800
    1774
    1884

  2. Huck Finn can best be described as:

    3. Your answer:
    an abolitionist novel
    an epic
    a social commentary

  3. Huck and Tom each received _____ dollars when they found money that the robbers had hidden in the cave

    4. Your answer:
    $3000
    $5000
    $6000

  4. Pa returns because

    5. Your answer:
    He wants revenge on Judge Thatcher
    He misses Huck
    He wants Huck's money

  5. When Jim first sees Huck on the island, he thinks Huck

    6. Your answer:
    has come to arrest him
    is a ghost
    has run away from home

  6. Jim runs away from Miss watson because

    7. Your answer:
    she is planning to sell him
    he is tired of being a slave
    he wants to spend time with Huck

  7. During their trip down the river, Huck talks to Jim about all of the following except:

    8. Your answer:
    royalty
    women
    King Solomon

  8. Tom Sawyer has the other boys form a band of

    9. Your answer:
    robbers
    pirates
    rock stars

  9. Huck escapes to Jackson Island and discovers

    10. Your answer:
    a Ghost
    Jim
    Pa

  10. Mark Twain's approach to racism in Huck Finn is that:

    11. Your answer:
    he supports it indirectly
    he sarcastically denounces it
    he does not deal with the topic in this novel

  11. The river best serves as a symbol of which of the followng?

    12. Your answer:
    slavery
    equality
    freedom

  12. The river provide all of the following except:

    13. Your answer:
    food
    a permanent home
    money

  13. Jim is all of the following except:

    14. Your answer:
    foolish
    hard-working
    motherly

  14. The narrator:

    15. Your answer:
    Tom
    Huck
    Jim

  15. Huck assumes all of the following identities except:

    16. Your answer:
    George Peters
    Thomas Smith
    Tom Sawyer

  16. Three main symbols:

    17. Your answer:
    river, ferryboats, bread
    river, witchcraft, raft
    river, money, raft

  17. Jim, during the novel:

    18. Your answer:
    runaway slave
    free man
    both

  18. Greed is not present in

    19. Your answer:
    selling Jim back into slavery
    floating break with quicksilver inside it
    Jim's financial investments

  19. Huck pretends to be ___ when he is caught pretending to be a girl:

    20. Your answer:
    escaped apprentice
    boy running away from abusive father
    escaped convict

  20. Dauphin represents what historical character?

    21. Your answer:
    son of King of Duke
    son of King of England
    son of King of France

  21. Central Conflict:

    22. Your answer:
    Huck's internal struggle to come to terms with himself and society
    freeing Jim from slavery
    escaping Pa

  22. Duke and Dauphin are primarily:

    23. Your answer:
    thieves
    actors
    beggars

  23. Who does Huck start to fall in love with?

    24. Your answer:
    Nobody
    Mary Jane Wilks
    Sarah Wiliams

  24. ThWhich family do the Duke and the Dauphin try to steal money from?

    25. Your answer:
    The Phelps
    The Grangerfords
    The Wilks

  25. Which paradox is inherent in Huck's character?

    26. Your answer:
    Realistic approach to life, but is superstitious
    Hates money, but wants to be rich
    Supports slavery, but wants to free Jim

  26. What animal does Huck kill to convince the town of his death?

    27. Your answer:
    Chicken
    Pig
    Sheep

  27. All of the following are used to find dead bodies in the river except:

    28. Your answer:
    Divers
    Cannons
    Dragging w/ nets

  28. The dead man that Huck and Jim see on the floating house is

    29. Your answer:
    Some guy from town
    Huck's Dad
    Some guy from a neighboring town

  29. Huck and Jim are trying to reach what town?

    30. Your answer:
    Cairo
    Hannibal
    Grangerfield

  30. Huck pretends to be all of the following except:

    31. Your answer:
    an escaped apprentice
    a butcher's son
    a farmer's son

  31. Which Shakespeare plays do the Duke and the Dauphn perform?

    32. Your answer:
    Roemo & Juliet and Richard III
    Romeo & Juliet and Hamlet
    Richard III and Hamlet

  32. Jim tells Huck about his daughter Elizabeth in order to:

    33. Your answer:
    show that Jim is a good father
    show that slavery is bad
    show that Jim misses his family and that he has feelings identical to those of white people

  33. Huck's comment that "It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race." was an example that

    34. Your answer:
    Huck's sense of humor
    Huck's shame of being white
    Huck's growing maturity; his disgust with the Duke & Dauphin

  34. The title "Royal Nonesuch" is an example of:

    35. Your answer:
    irony
    symbolism
    hyperbole

  35. Huck's growing maturity is best shown by:

    36. Your answer:
    "All right, then, I'll go to hell!" (in regards to releasing Jim)
    "I could a stayed if I wanted to, but I didn't want to."
    "At last she come and begun to ask me questions, but I couldn't answer them sraight..."

  36. When Huck first meets Aunt Sally, what excuse does he give for being late?

    37. Your answer:
    The boat he was on went "aground"
    The boat he was on blew out a cylinder head
    Both

  37. In response to Huck's comment, Sally replies:

    38. Your answer:
    "It's not good to lie Huckleberry!"
    "How awful! Thank goodness no one was killed."
    "How terrible! Was anyone injured?"

  38. The final climax of Huck's adventures occurs:

    39. Your answer:
    At end when Jim learns that he is free, and Huck learns that his Pa is dead
    When Huck and Jim accidentally pass Cairo on the raft
    During feud when Buck gets killed

  39. there are several revelations at the end of the novel. Which of the following is revealed b Tom Sawyer?

    40. Your answer:
    That Jim and Huck are best friends
    Huck's Pa is dead
    That Jim is a free man

  40. The fact that Jim knew Huck's Pa was dead but did not tell Huck tells us what about Jim's character?

    41. Your answer:
    all of the above
    That he felt sorry for Huck and wanted to protect him
    That Jim's character is complex

  41. Twain sarcastically portrays religion in all of the following ways except:

    42. Your answer:
    having Huck pray every day while living with the widow
    having the Grangerford's carry their guns with them to church
    having Huck's prayers get answered

  42. Twain's Huckleberry Finn has been banned for which of the following reasons?

    43. Your answer:
    all of the above
    the derogatory use of the word nigger
    the close relationship between Huck Finn and Jim

  43. Which character does Huck Finn live with in the opening chapters?

    44. Your answer:
    Aunt Polly
    Widow Douglas
    Huck Finn

  44. The Grangerfords are feuding with what family?

    45. Your answer:
    the Shepherdsons
    the Wilkes
    the Watsons

  45. The feud was started by:

    46. Your answer:
    a Grangerfordf
    no one remembers
    a Shepherdson

  46. The feud is best represented by which of the following Shakespeare plays:

    47. Your answer:
    Hamlet
    Romeo & Juliet
    King Lear

  47. What happens to Buck?

    48. Your answer:
    he makes Huck leave the Grangerfords
    he runs away with one of the Shepherdson girls
    he is killed during the feud

  48. Colonel Sherburn is:

    49. Your answer:
    the man who kills Boggs and has his house ripped down by an angry mob
    the man who arrests the Duke and Dauphin
    the man who kills Boggs and single-handedly stops an angry mob

  49. The Duke and the Dauphin are punished by______:

    50. Your answer:
    life in prison
    Huck and Jim
    tar and feathering

  50. Huck and Jim pass Cairo because:

    51. Your answer:
    there is a thick fog out and they are swept downriver
    they are running away from the Duke and Dauphin
    they plan to head further south

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