The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Review

Game

1. True or False: Huck was tricked into believing that the circus daredevil horse rider was drunk.

True False

2. At the beginning of the novel, Huck lived with…

Aunt Polly Widow Douglas

His father Aunt Sally

3. Who said “Don’t you play nothing on me, because I wouldn’t on you. Honest injun, you ain’t a ghost?”

Jim Pap

Tom Miss Watson

4. Who said “No; spirits wouldn’t say, ‘Dern the dern fog.’”

Sophia The King

Aunt Sally Huck

5. True or False: Boggs survived the shooting by Col. Sherburn after a Bible was placed on his chest.

True False

6. Jim runs away from St. Petersburg because…

He is tired of being a slave

He is afraid of being sold down the river

His daughter has been stolen

He can become a free man in Louisiana

7. True or False: The King scams the people at the camp meeting, telling them he is a pirate from the Indian Ocean.

True False

8. One major reason Huck has trouble accepting Jim as an equal is…

Jim has been cruel to Huck in the past

Huck has been taught that blacks are inferior to

whites

Tom and Jim once tried to cheat Huck out of his $6,000

Jim has lied to Huck using his hairball to tell Huck’s future

9. True or False: Huck convinces the slave hunters that his father on the raft has small pox.

True False

10.Which of the following would be a true statement about the way Twain saw his main character (Huck)?

He was far more intelligent than other

boys his age

He had a wonderful sense of humor

He was forced to be practical because of his difficult life

He always believed what he was told by others

11.True or False: Huck watches Col. Sherburn get lynched for shooting down the innocent Boggs.

True False

12. One can account for Huck’s knowing so much about kings and such because…

Of all the stories Widow Douglas told him

Of history he learned in school

He came from England

No way to account for it

13. Which of the following was not true about Huck and Jim’s relationship?

Jim cared for Huck before Huck was

sympathetic toward Jim

Huck never enjoyed the results of the practical jokes he played on Jim

Huck never felt Jim was being sincere about his

friendship

Jim cared for Huck as much as a father would care for his

son

14.True or False: Cairo is south of St. Louis.

True False

15. Pap, the Grangerfords, the Shepherdsons, and Col. Sherburn were all alike because…

They were respected

They were lawless and violent

They were murdered

They drank excessively

16. Mr. Wilks’ funeral was interrupted by…

A fire A barking dog

Gunshots The arrival of the real brothers

17. Who said “And when you throw at a rat or anything, hitch yourself up a tip-toe and fetch your hand up over your head as awkward as you can, and miss your rat about six or seven foot.”?

Judith Loftus The King

Emmeline Tom

18.True or False: At the funeral, Huck hides the money in the grand piano.

True False

20. When Huck found Jim, Jim was afraid of Huck because…

He thought Huck would send him back to Miss

Watson

Huck is carrying a gun

He thought Huck was a part of the search team looking

for him

He thought Huck was a ghost

20. Who said “…if I catch you about that school again, I’ll tan you good. First you know, you’ll get religion too”?

Miss Watson Pap

Sophia Buck

21.True or False: The King convinces the Wilks' sisters he's sincere by offering his inheritance to them.

True False

22. Huck demonstrated a sense of compassion when he…

Saved a baby rabbit from drowning

Wanted to save the thieves from drowning

Apologized to Jim Gave $50 to a poor man

23. Who said “Well, a feud is this way; a man has a quarrel with another man, and kills him; then that other man’s brother kills him; then the other brothers on both sides goes for one another.”?

Buck Jim

Aunt Sally Colonel Sherburn

24. Emmeline Grangerford…?

Drew morbid pictures and wrote overly sentimental

poems

Fell in love with Huck

Left a ghost behind that haunted the house

Was a beautiful woman who died at 21

25. Who said “Some calls me Sarah, some calls me Mary” ?

Mary Tom

Huck Aunt Sally

26. Who said “You didn’t bring a man with you; that’s one mistake. And the other is that you didn’t come in the dark and fetch your masks.” ?

Colonel Sherburn The Duke

Tom Buck

27. Who said “I should hope we can find a way that’s a little more complicated than that…it’s got to be real mysterious, and troublesome, and good.

The Duke Colonel Sherburn

Pap Tom

28.True or False: Dr. Robinson doesn't believe that the King and the Duke are Peter Wilks' brothers.

True False

29. Twain used the scene on the houseboat as…

Foreshadowing Symbolism

Flashback Humor

30.True or False: The Duke mangles the soliloquy from Hamlet.

True False

31. The Duke said he was the rightful…

Duke of Bridgewater

Duke of Earl

King of France Duke of Bilgewater

32. In his conversation with Mrs. Loftus, Huck learned…

How to sewJim was already

free

Pap drank himself to death

Jim was being blamed for murdering him

33.True or False: Mark Twain’s real name was Markus Clemens

True False

34. Huck’s conscience bothered him because…

He felt guilty for not apologizing to Jim for

tricking him

He thinks Jim is a good person

He didn’t turn Jim over to the authorities

He let Tom play trick on Jim

35. The end of the novel portrays Huck as…

Completely “civilized”

A mature man

Still revolting against convention

Immature and childish

36.True or False: Tom is happy to have been shot.

True False

37. Who said “You can’t pray a lie…I found that out.”

Huck Jim

The Duke Pap

38. The main lesson Huck learned through this adventure was…

It doesn’t pay to run away from home

An African American can be superior or equal to a

white person

Strange people live along the rivers of our nation

There would be a war between the states before

too long

39. Huck assumed the identity of Tom Sawyer because…

Mrs. Phelps called him “Tom” when he first

arrived

Mr. Phelps could not see very well and was the first to call him “Tom”

He had decided to use Tom’s name before he got to the

farm

Jim suggested Huck should use Tom’s name whenever

he was in danger

40. The Duke and the King were…

Hanged and buried on the Wilks’ property

Tarred and feathered

Freed by the sheriff Arrested for fraud and theft