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What trick does Huck play on Jim?

• Huck takes Jim's sleeping bag and tries to make Jim believe that witches confiscated it.

• Huck tries to make Jim believe the events of the past evening were a dream.

• Huck pretends he's going to turn Jim in to the slave hunters and even goes as far as to invite them to dinner.

• Huck tells Jim that the slave hunters have stopped looking for him.

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Why doesn't Huck turn in Jim?

• The slave hunters leave too quickly.

• Huck figures he won't get enough of the reward money.

• Huck and Jim have become friends; Huck couldn't turn in his friend.

• It was too much trouble.

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Why don't the slave hunters get Jim?

• Huck and Jim out-ran them.

• Jim was too ill to go with them.

• The slave hunters get tired of waiting and leave.

• The slave hunters were afraid they would catch the disease Huck's "father" had.

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Explain the differences between Huck and the slave hunters.

• The slave hunters see slaves like Jim as property; Huck sees Jim as a person and his friend.

• The slave hunters have Jim's best interest in mind; Huck didn't mind losing his traveling companion.

• The slave hunters see slaves like Jim as ordinary people; Huck sees Jim only as someone else's property.

• The slave hunters were compassionate; Huck was greedy.

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What is the bad luck in Chapter 16?

• Jim got sick.

• A steamboat ran over the raft.

• The hunters get Jim.

• Jim and Huck have an argument and split up.

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How does Huck get to the Grangerford’s?

• Huck ended up there after their raft was smashed by a steamboat and he had to swim to shore.

• Jim told him a long time ago to look for the Grangerford's place.

• Huck heard some people talking about the Grangerford place along the road and decided to look for it.

• All of the above

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Why did Twain include this adventure with the Grangerfords?

• Twain wanted to show the ridiculous and sometimes violent side of human nature.

• Twain wanted to show Huck's determination to set Jim free.

• Twain wanted to show the Grangerfords as a model family.

• Twain wanted to show the Shepherdsons as a model family.

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"But this one was a __________ dream."

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"...and she was leaning __________ on a tombstone on her right elbow under a weeping willow..."

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"But I reckoned that with her __________ she was having a better time in the graveyard.

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