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Ms. Kizlyk – English 3A
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Reading Schedule
The following is a calendar to help guide you in the reading of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. You will be expected to follow the calendar and read the specific chapters. Even if you are absent, you are expected to complete your reading assignments, so take your book home with you every evening! Also, make sure you bring your novels every day to class, because we might have free reading time. You may use this study guide for your quizzes. The following represents your homework reading assignments. If we have a snow day, then the dates will be bumped forward a day.
Dates that chapters are due & a quiz will be given
11/17 & 11/18 Quiz today over 1-10
11/28 & 11/29 Quiz today over 11-20
12/2 & 12/5 Quiz today over 21-30
12/12 & 12/13 Quiz today over 31 – 43
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Study Guide
Directions: Fill out the study guide as you read the novel. Quizzes will be based off of this study guide. Chapter 1 1) Huck Finn begins the narration of this story by telling about the end of the book Tom Sawyer.
What does he say? 2) Why did Huck run away from the Widow Douglas at one point? Who convinced Huck to go back
to the Widow?
3) Who is Miss Watson? How does Huck describe her?
4) Why doesn’t Huck get along with Miss Watson and Widow Douglas? 5) What does Huck think about religion – specifically the good place, the bad place, and prayer?
6) Describe Huck’s superstition with the spider.
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Chapter 2 7) Who is Jim?
8) How do Huck and Tom trick Jim?
9) What does Jim believe happened to him as a result of Tom’s trick?
10) What other superstitious things does Jim do? How do others react to him because of his superstitions?
11) Where do Huck, Tom, and a few other boys go that evening? What does Tom tell the boys and what must they do?
12) What do the boys think of Tom’s oath and why do they almost disqualify Huck?
13) What other rules does Tom create? How do the boys react to these rules?
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Chapter 3 14) Miss Watson and the Widow discuss prayer with Huck. Describe this conversation. 15) Huck mentions that he hasn’t seen his father in more than a year. How does he feel about his
father?
16) What are the rumors surrounding his father’s disappearance? Does Huck believe in these rumors?
17) Tom brings up another superstitious belief when he tells his gang about rubbing on an oil lamp to
bring out a genie. What does Huck think of this? 18) How could Tom and Huck be considered foils to one another as seen so far in the book?
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Chapter 4 19) In what ways is Huck adjusting to “civilized” life and in what ways does he still break away from it?
20) Why did Huck give his money to Judge Thatcher? 21) Describe the superstition that is seen in this chapter.
Chapter 5 22) Describe Pap Finn’s appearance.
23) How does Pap act when he sees his son?
24) Why has Pap come to see Huck?
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25) What is Huck’s attitude towards his father?
26) What happens at the end of the chapter?
Chapter 6 27) What does Pap do at the beginning of chapter 6?
28) How did Huck settle back into his old ways while he was with his father? 29) Why does Huck want to escape from his father? What is his plan?
30) What are some of the things that Pap rants and raves about while he is drunk?
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31) Mark Twain uses the character Pap to make social commentary of racial issues of his time. What do you think he is trying to say through the character Pap and also Pap’s discussion of the mulatto?
32) What crazy things does Pap do at the end of this chapter?
Chapter 7 33) How does Pap act towards Huck the next morning?
34) What does Huck find when he heads down to the river?
35) How does Huck finally make his escape?
Chapter 8 36) What does Huck see on the river the next morning? How does he obtain the bread that he eats?
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37) How does Huck spend next few days on the island?
38) When Huck finds Jim on the island, why is Jim scared of seeing Huck?
39) Why is Jim on the island?
40) What are some of the superstitions that Jim and Huck discuss?
Chapter 9 41) What do Jim and Huck decide to do at the beginning of this chapter?
42) What is in the two story house that floats by?
43) How does Huck show that he cares about Jim at the end of the chapter?
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Chapter 10 44) Why do Huck and Jim discuss the dead man at the beginning of this chapter?
45) What happens when Huck kills a rattlesnake? What does Jim blame on this bad luck?
46) Why does Huck disguise himself like a girl?
47) With the exception of the snake, what is the contrast that you are seeing between nature (life on
the island) with society?
Chapter 11 48) Why does Huck dress as a girl to go ashore?
49) Who does Huck meet when he goes ashore and who does he introduce himself as?
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50) What does Huck find out? 51) What happens when the woman starts to become suspicious of Huck? How does Huck try to
cover for himself?
52) How did the woman figure out that Huck was a boy? 53) What happens when Huck returns to the island?
54) How do you know Huck and Jim are friends by the end of Chapter 11? Chapter 12 55) Why do Huck and Jim begin their journey down the Mississippi? What do they do for their first
few days?
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56) What does Huck do when they reach St. Louis?
57) Why do Huck and Jim board the Walter Scott? What happens while they are on the boat?
Chapter 13 58) How do Huck and Jim leave the Walter Scott and escape from the robbers?
59) Why does Huck start to feel bad about the men on the sinking ship?
60) How does Huck try to “save” the robbers?
61) What happened to the boat after all? What do Huck and Jim do next?
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Chapter 14 62) What do Jim and Huck do the next morning after their “adventure” on the Walter Scott?
63) What does Jim think of King Sollermun?
64) When Jim says if King Sollermun had one or two children, he couldn’t afford to be wasteful with
them. Since King Sollermun has about five million children running around, it is different for him. Jim says “He as soon chop a chile in two as a cat. Dey’s plenty mo”. Describe how this conversation is symbolic of the white man’s view of slavery?
65) How does Jim react when Huck tries to explain different languages to Jim? Chapter 15 66) What happens during the fog?
67) What trick does Huck play on Jim?
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68) How does Huck feel about the trick that he played on Jim? Explain his thought process and what this says about Huck’s feelings about race.
69) Why does Jim put up with Huck’s “adventures” and childish pranks that we have seen so far in the
novel? Chapter 16 70) As Jim and Huck look for the town of Cairo, and Jim keeps talking about being a free man, what
troubles Huck?
71) Why doesn’t Huck turn in Jim?
72) Why don’t the slave hunters get Jim?
73) What do the slave hunters give to Huck and why?
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74) How does Huck feel about not turning in Jim?
75) What is the “bad luck” that seemed to come from the snakeskin in this chapter, according to Jim and Huck?
76) What happens when Huck and Jim encounter an oncoming steamboat?
Chapter 17 76) How does Huck get to the Grangerfords?
77) What does Huck learn about the Grangerfords’ feud? 78) What story does Huck tell the family and how do they react?
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79) Huck wakes up one morning and forgets his made-up name. How does he solve this problem?
80) Who was Emmeline?
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81) What sorts of things does Huck tell the reader about the Grangerford family at the beginning of the chapter?
82) What happens one day when Buck shoots a Shepherdson?
83) What favor did Sophia Grangerford ask of Huck after church one Sunday?
84) How is Huck reacquainted with Jim? Explain what happens.
85) What crazy event happens the next day?
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86) Why do you think that Twain included the story about the Grangerfords?
Chapter 19 87) How did Jim and Huck meet the king and duke?
88) How does Huck describe the two men?
89) Why are these men in trouble?
90) The two men decide to become partners. What is each of their specialties?
91) What lie do these men make up about their identities? What do they expect from Jim and Huck?
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Chapter 20 92) What does Huck tell the King and Duke when they ask if Jim is a runaway slave?
93) What happens that evening?
94) What is further evidence that the Duke and the King are conmen?
95) How does the King manage to collect over $87 in this chapter?
96) What solution did the Duke come up with to be able to travel with Jim during the daytime?
Chapter 21 97) What is comedic about the Duke’s recitation of the most famous soliloquy from Hamlet?
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98) Where do they decide to perform their show? How do they advertise for it?
99) Describe the situation with Boggs and Colonel Sherburn
Chapter 22 100) What happens when the lynch mob approaches Sherburn’s home?
101) Why do you think that Twain included this scene with Colonel Sherburn? What do you think he
was trying to say about human nature?
102) What are Huck’s impressions of the circus?
103) Describe the King and Duke’s performance that night.
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Chapter 23 104) How does the crowd react to the first showing of The Royal Nonesuch, at the beginning of the
chapter?
105) What happens on the third night of the show?
106) How does Jim react to the Duke and King’s money-making schemes? How does Huck try to
explain this to Jim?
107) Describe the story that Jim tells Huck about his daughter.
108) Though “it don’t seem natural,” Huck concludes that Jim loves his family as much as white
men love theirs. Why do you think Twain included this story about Jim’s daughter and Huck’s realizations about Jim?
Chapter 24 109) When Jim explains how he gets bored when he has to stay tied with the rope all day, what
does the Duke do to solve this problem? Was Jim happy with this solution?
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110) Describe what happens when the Duke, King, and Huck go into town?
111) What is going to be the King and Duke’s newest scheme? How does Huck react to their latest
performance at the end of the chapter?
Chapter 25 112) How does everyone react to the King and Duke? What happens at the viewing and what does
Huck think of the King and Duke’s performance?
113) Describe Peter Wilks’s will and what the con artists did after hearing the reading of the will.
114) Describe what happens when Doctor Robinson enters the scene?
115) Think about how Huck’s commentary has progressed through the book, particularly with his
reactions to Jim talking about his family and the Duke and King’s schemes. How does Huck seem to be changing at this half-way point in the novel?
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Chapter 26 116) Describe Huck’s conversations with Joanna over dinner.
117) What makes Huck decide that he cannot let the Wilks sisters be swindled?
118) What does Huck overhear when he hides in the King’s room at the Wilks’s house?
119) What does Huck do once the King and Duke leave the room?
Chapter 27 120) Where does Huck hide the money next?
121) What happens at the funeral later on that day?
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122) What do the Duke and King do that upsets the sisters greatly? 123) What do the Duke and King do when they find out that the money is missing?
Chapter 28 124) What happens when Huck see Mary Jane crying?
125) Why does Huck make Mary Jane promise?
126) What happens when Huck encounters Mary’s sisters?
127) What happens after the auction?
128) How is the reader seeing further development in Huck’s character in the last few chapters?
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Chapter 29 129) What problems have the real Wilks brothers had on their way to their brother’s funeral?
130) What happens when the Duke, King, and the real Wilks brothers are taken to the tavern?
131) What is so important about the tattoo on Peter’s body and how do they go about finding it?
132) What happens when the bag of gold is discovered on Peter’s body?
Chapter 30 133) What happens when the Duke and King are reunited with Huck?
134) What do the King and Duke argue about?
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135) What are some of the scams that the duke and king do in the towns along the river as they continue to head south?
136) After the duke and king’s unsuccessful scamming attempts, Huck says that they would huddle together and talk secretively. What did Huck and Jim think they were talking about? How does this make them feel?
137) What happens when the king goes ashore? 138) What does Huck find out from the little boy about Jim’s disappearance?
139) How does Huck feel about Jim’s disappearance?
140) What two reasons does Huck give for not writing to Tom Sawyer and having him tell Miss Watson where Jim was?
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141) Why does Huck feel that God is punishing him? How is this ironic?
142) When Huck is trying to pray to God, what does he think about concerning Jim?
143) Why is it important that Huck says ‘“All right, then, I’ll go to hell”’?
144) What happens when Huck tries to find Silas Phelps’ home?
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145) What happens when Huck reaches the Phelps house?
146) Huck gets nervous when Sally asks him to tell her about Tom’s family. What saves him from this predicament?
147) What is the situational irony that occurs next when Silas speaks?
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148) Why does Huck need to go to the steamboat? Chapter 33 149) What happens when Huck sees Tom Sawyer?
150) What does Tom tell Huck to do after Huck has explained his current situation?
151) What is Tom’s reaction when Huck tells him that he is going to steal Jim out of slavery?
152) How does the Phelps family react when Tom comes to the house?
153) Why do Huck and Tom sneak out of the house that evening?
154) Why does Huck feel sorry for the king and duke?
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155) What is Huck’s plan for helping Jim to escape?
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156) Why doesn’t Tom like Huck’s plan? 157) How do Huck and Tom’s plans for Jim’s escape differ?
158) What happens when Jim sees Huck?
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159) Why is Tom annoyed at the beginning of this chapter?
160) Why does Tom say that they need a saw?
161) What does Huck steal in this chapter? What is Tom’s view of stealing? 162) How is Tom Sawyer again shown as being a foil to Huck in these past few chapters?
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Chapter 36 163) Why does Tom give up on the idea of digging with knives? 164) What do Tom and Huck steal after their night of digging? For what do they want to use these
items?
165) How have the Phelps treated Jim according to what Jim tells Huck and Tom?
166) Why does Jim agree to all of Tom’s ridiculous ideas for his escape?
167) What happens during the actual escape?
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168) Why is Aunt Sally irritated at the beginning of this chapter? 169) How do Tom and Huck continue to confuse Uncle Silas and Aunt Sally in this chapter?
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170) What trouble do Tom and Huck have with the “witch pie”?
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171) What does Tom say that Jim has to do at the beginning of this chapter?
172) What were some of the inscriptions that Tom made up for Jim? 173) Why are Huck and Jim trying to get a huge stone into Jim’s shed?
174) What are some of the other strange ideas that Tom has towards the end of this chapter?
Chapter 39 175) What happens to the things that Tom and Huck are collecting at the beginning of this chapter?
176) What were some of the things that happened over the course of the next three weeks?
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177) Why does Uncle Silas writing letters? What does he plan to do since he is not receiving any replies?
178) What is Tom’s next plan? What happens?
179) What happens at the end of the chapter?
Chapter 40 180) What happens as a result of the final part of Tom’s plan?
181) What happens when Huck tries to warn Jim and Tom?
182) What does Tom tell Huck that he must do if he gets a doctor for him?
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183) What lies does Huck tell the doctor?
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184) What does Huck tell Uncle Silas when he runs into him and Silas asks where he has been?
185) What do the farmers and their wives say about Jim and the shack? 186) Who do the people think helped Jim? 187) Why doesn’t Aunt Sally want Huck to look for Sid (Tom) and why does Huck obey her?
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188) Describe what happens when Tom returns to the Phelps house.
189) What do the men want to do with Jim?
190) How does the doctor stand up for Jim?
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191) What news do we find out when Tom awakens?
192) Why has Aunt Polly traveled to Arkansas to see the Phelps family?
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193) What secret does Jim reveal to Huck? 194) What does Huck say at the end of this chapter?
