Huck Finn Test

What is a “stretcher?”

• A lie

• An exercise

• Huck’s name for a trick

• Tom’s gang

What do we know about Huck from the way he speaks and the dialogue that he uses?

• He is poor

• He is uneducated

• He is Southern

• All of the above

What does Huck’s reaction to Tom playing a trick on Jim tell us about his character?

• He is a mean-spirited kid

• He has a conscience

• He is a whiner

• None of the above

Why does Huck “sell” his fortune to Judge Thatcher?

• Widow Douglass wants it

• He wants to be free from worldly treasure

• He doesn’t want Pap to get it

• He doesn’t want Tom to get it

Why does Huck kill a pig?

• To eat bacon

• To fake his own death

• To scare Pap into sobering up

• None of the above

How do Huck’s superstition and Jim’s superstition differ?

• Huck is sincere, Jim is uneducated

• Jim views it as a religion, Huck just doesn’t want bad luck

• Jim is not superstitious

• Huck is not superstitious

What is Huck’s attitude toward Jim when he first meets him on Jacksons Island?

• He views him as his friend

• He views him as his enemy

• He views him as a child

• He views him as a slave

Why is Huck’s reaction to Jim’s snakebite significant?

• Huck apologizes to a slave

• Huck is angry

• Huck avoids taking responsibility

• None of the above

How does Mrs. Loftus know Huck is not a girl?

• He catches like a boy

• He almost hits a rat with a chunk of lead

• He threads a needle wrong

• All of the above

Huck insists on boarding the Walter Scott, even though Jim doesn’t want to, so that he can save the murderers.

• True

• False