Huck Finn, Chapters 21-30

What kind of show do the king and duke plan at first?

• Scenes from Eugene O’Neil’s plays.

• Scenes from William Shakespeare’s plays.

• Scenes from Mark Twain’s plays.

• Scenes from Oscar Wilde’s plays.

• Scenes from William Macready’s plays.

The duke and the king perform their play in ________.

• Arkansas

• Kentucky

• Mississippi

• Louisiana

What does Jim tell Huck about his daughter Elizabeth?

• Jim struck Elizabeth for not obeying him, but he didn’t realize she was deaf from Scarlet fever.

• Jim lost Elizabeth when he took her to town and slave traders grabbed her and sold her downriver.

• Jim has never been able to see Elizabeth since his wife lives on another farm and her master was furious when he found out Jim’s wife was pregnant. The master refuses to allow Jim to see Elizabeth.

• Jim misses Elizabeth because he used to rock her to sleep every night while singing to her.

How does the king learn about the Wilks family?

• He reads about them in a newspaper.

• He talks to a naïve, or innocent, man from the town who gives him the information.

• He pays a slave five cents for the information.

Why does Dr. Robinson think the king is a fraud?

• The doctor recognizes the king’s British accent as being fake.

• The doctor has an old charcoal sketch of the Wilks brothers, and the king doesn’t look like either of the men.

• The doctor heard about the king and duke being rapscallions from people upriver.

• The doctor can tell that the king really doesn’t love his nieces.

• The doctor is from England originally, so he knows that the king’s stories don’t make sense.

What causes the disturbance during the funeral?

• A dog outside chases and catches a rabbit.

• A dog in the cellar catches a rat.

• A dog upstairs chases a mouse downstairs and through the parlor where the coffin is and all the people are.

• A dog that helps a blind man who has come to the funeral falls over dead during the funeral.

• A dog outside leaps for a bird it’s chasing, and when the bird flies inside through a small opening in the window, the dog smashes through window.

What is Levi Bell’s plan for deciding who the real Harvey and William Wilks are?

• He tries to compare their handwriting to a letter he has.

• He wants the sheriff to ask both men a series of questions about Peter without either man being in the same room together.

• He tries to compare self-portraits the Wilks brothers had each painted of themselves when they were young.