1. What is Mark Twain s real name? (a) Mark Twain, (b) Samuel Clemens, (c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (d) George Jackson

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1 Name: Date: Bell: English III CP II ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN TEST Multiple Choice (1 point each) Supply your answer on the Scantron. Only one answer is correct for each item. 1. What is Mark Twain s real name? (a) Mark Twain, (b) Samuel Clemens, (c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (d) George Jackson 2. The novel takes place on the (a) Ohio River, (b) Missouri River, (c) Mississippi River, (d) Scioto River. 3. The Duke disguised Jim as a (a) sick slave (b) Indian, (c) sick Arab, (d) freed slave. 4. Mark Twain used (a) one dialect, (b) standard English, (c) several kinds of dialect (d) no dialect. 5. The King sells Jim as a runaway slave for (a) $20, (b) $40, (c) $100, (d) $ The story takes place in the (a) 1790's, (b) 1840's, (c) 1860's, (d) 1880's. 7. When the cutthroats are trapped on the wrecked steamship, Huck (a) felt sorry for them (b) turned them into the sheriff, (c) gave them a ride on his raft, (d) let them drown. 8. How much money was waiting for Huck back home? (a) None, (b) Over $6,000, (c) $1, (d) $ Pap was (a) shot in the back, (b) drowned, (c) hanged, (d) alive and well at the end of the story. 10. How much did the doctor say a nigger like Jim was worth? (a) $1,000 (b) $6,000, (c) $300, (d) $ What kind of pie did Tom tell Nat to make? (a) Ghost pie, (b) Apple pie, (c) Onion Pie, (d) Witch pie. 12. The King and the Duke were (a) beaten with a stick, (b) whipped, (c) imprisoned,(d) tarred and feathered. 13. Who do Mr. and Mrs. Phelps think Huck is? (a) Tom Sawyer, (b) Sid Sawyer, (c) George Jackson, (d) Bill Williams. 14. What did the King say was tatooed on Peter Wilks's breast? (a) Mom, (b) a thin blue arrow,(c) an anchor, (d) P-B-W. 15. What did Harvey Wilks say was tatooed on his brothers breast? (a) P-B-W, (b) a thin blue arrow, (c) nothing, (d) Mary. 16. Colonel Sherburn says that the average man is a (a) Christian, (b) hero, (c) trouble maker, (d) coward. 17. Jim felt bad about hitting his daughter because (a) she was deaf and dumb, (b) she was blind, (c) she was crippled, (d) a,b, and c. 18. Mary Jane, Susan, and Joanna are Peter Wilks's (a) nieces, (b) daughters, (c) grandchildren, (d) stepdaughters. 19. What's the name of the steamboat wreck? (a) Sir Walter Raleigh, (b) Walter Scott (c) River Queen, (d) Becky Thatcher.

The novel takes place on the (a) Ohio River, (b) Missouri River, (c) Mississippi River, (d) Scioto River. 3. The Duke disguised Jim as a (a) sick slave (b) Indian, (c) sick Arab, (d) freed slave. 4.

2 20. Who is Sarah Williams? (a ) Huck Finn, (b) Huck's sweetheart, (c) Huck's mother, (d) Aunt Sally's daughter. 21. Besides killing one another, the Grangerfords and the Shepardsons also (a) dine together, (b) attend church together, (c) conduct business (d) none of the above. 22. How did Tom and Huck finally decide to free Jim? (a)dig him out, (b)blast him out with dynamite, (c) Flood him out, (c)bribe Nat to unlock the door. 23. Where did Huck hide to eavesdrop on the King and the Duke? (a) Under the bed, (b) In a closet, (c) behind the curtain, (d) On the balcony. 24. Who told the Wilks girls the King was a fraud? (a) The undertaker, (b) The doctor, (c) The reverend, (d) The lawyer. 25. How did Huck find out his pseudonym George Jackson after he had forgotten it? (a) Asked Jim, (b) Had Buck write it out, (c) It was written on a scrap of paper he kept in his shoe, (d) He prayed for the answer. Character Identification (1 point each) Supply your answer on the Scantron 26. The King 27. Widow Douglas 28. Mary Jane 29. Judge Thatcher 30. Pap 31. The Duke 32. Sally 33. Jim 34. The narrator 35. Tom a. The town drunkard b. Huck Finn c. Tom's aunt d. "Juliet" e. A slave ab. "Romeo" ac. Huck's friend ad. A Wilks ae. "the law" bc. Woman who tried to reform Huck

How did Tom and Huck finally decide to free Jim? (a)dig him out, (b)blast him out with dynamite, (c) Flood him out, (c)bribe Nat to unlock the door. 23.

3 Identify the Speaker (2 points each) Choose from the following names. Supply answer on the test a) Huck d) Mary Jane Wilks ac) King bc) Miss Watson b) Tom e) Jim ad) Duke bd) Col. Sherburn c) Widow Douglas ab) Pap ae) Boggs be) Buck cd) Nat ce) Judge Thatcher 36) "Well, I'll teach her how to meddle. Now lookee here, you drop that school, you hear? Your mother couldn't read, she couldn't' write, nuther, before she died. None of the family couldn't before they died. I can't. Here you go swellin' your self up like this." 37) "Well, a feud is this way. A man has a quarrel with another man and kills him; and the man's brother kills him; then the other brothers, on both sides, go for one another; then the cousins chip in, and by and by everybody's killed off and there ain't no more feud. It's kind of slow and takes a long time." 38) "The idea of you thinking you had pluck enough to lynch a man! The idea of you lynching anybody!" 39) "He ain't comin' back no mo', Huck." 40) "You'd best mind your ways if you want to be saved. The eternal fires of hell are being stoked for you." 41) "But somehow I couldn't seem to find no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind." 42) "Huck - Huck Finn, you look me in de eye; look me in de eye. Hain't you ben gone away?" 43) "Eighty-seven dollars and eighty-five cents! Now, take it all around, Bilgewater, this here lays over any day I ever put in the missionaryin' line." 44) "Oh, certainly. It's best. Some authorities think different, but mostly it's considered best to kill them." 45) "You must say it soft, and sick, and languishly, so - Ro-o-o-meo! That's the idea for Juliet's a dear sweet mere child of a girl, you know, and she don't bray like a jackass!" 46) "No'm. Killed a nigger." 47) "I wouldn't think nuffn; I'd jes take en bust him on de head - dat is if he warn't white. But I wouldn't 'low no nigger to call me dat." 48) "Oh, dear, dear, to think they ain't ever going to see each other any more!" 49) "A man can't get can't get his rights in a govment like this. Sometimes I've a mighty notion to just leave this country for good and all." 50) "Come out here, Sherburn! Come out here and meet the man you've swindled. You're the houn' I'm after, and I'm gwyne to have you, too!"

Your mother couldn't read, she couldn't' write, nuther, before she died. None of the family couldn't before they died. I can't. Here you go swellin' your self up like this.

4 Define and List (12 points 4 points each) Supply answer on the test 51) Define satire and give one example from the novel. 52) Give two examples of Appearance vs. Reality from the novel and explain the significance of the situation. 53) Give two examples of Exchange of Money and explain the significance of the situation. Short Answer Answer 4 of the following questions (7 points each). 3-5 complete sentences Do not go into great detail; get to the point. Supply answer on the test 1. How does Huck exhibit ingenuity (When does Huck show that he can think on his feet)? Give at least two specific examples. 2. The story is told by a fourteen-year-old Huck, who admits to elaborate lies and fabrications. Can we trust him? Can we accept his version of things, or must we read between his lines?

Short Answer Answer 4 of the following questions (7 points each). 3-5 complete sentences Do not go into great detail; get to the point. Supply answer on the test 1.

5 3. There are several situations in which Huck s sound heart and deformed conscious come into conflict with each other (as when Huck tells the two slave hunters that there is "only one" man on the raft and that "He's white"). Give another example of when Huck's sound heart and deformed conscious conflict and explain the consequences. 4. What are the consequences of Huck's and Jim's going past the mouth of the Ohio River in the fog? 5. As Huck and Jim travel South on the Mississippi River, they also move between the river and the land. How does life on the River differ from life on the Land? Give specific examples of what happens on the River as compared with what happens on the Land. 6. What are the similarities between the king's and duke's treatment of Jim and Tom Sawyer's treatment of him in the final chapters?

What are the consequences of Huck's and Jim's going past the mouth of the Ohio River in the fog? 5.

6 7. Is there any justice in the fact that only Tom is wounded in the final chase through the swamp? 8. Huck's moral conflict has been described as a sound heart colliding with a deformed conscience. What does this mean?

Huck's moral conflict has been described as a sound

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Test. 1. Who wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? a. Tom Sawyer b. Mark Twain c. Tom Jones d.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Test 1. Who wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? a. Tom Sawyer b. Mark Twain c. Tom Jones d. Tom Finn 2. What town did Huck Finn live in? a. St. Paul b. St. Petersburg