The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - ch34&35

 Character matching

• Uncle Silas

• Plans to steal the keys, quickly unlock Jim, and immediately leave on the raft

• Tom

• Held captive in a small farm cabin

• Jim

• Discovers where Jim is being held captive

• Huck

• Owner of the keys

Tom argues that Huck's plan is too simple and as "mild as __________."

• buttermilk

• goosemilk

• a butterfly

• a moth's nest

After they examine the cabin where Jim is being held, which statement is untrue?

• Huck suggests that they tear off one board for Jim to escape.

• Huck argues that Tom's plan is not complicated enough.

• Tom suggests that they dig Jim out because doing so will take a couple of weeks.

• When a slave brings food to Jim, the boys go along and whisper to Jim that they are going to set him free.

Based on the prison novels he has read, Tom argues that Jim will need several things to escape. Which item is not included on Tom's list?

• a rope ladder

• case-knives

• a journal

• a magnifying glass

The opportunity to burlesque Tom's ​ (a)   and infuse ​ (b)   back into the novel comes at the price of Jim's ​ (c)   . In actuality, Jim has already been set free by the late Miss Watson's will, and readers will learn this startling fact at the end of the novel. However, because both Huck and Jim are ​ (d)   of Jim's freedom, they agree to follow Tom's ​ (e)   for a dramatic escape.

• romanticism
• humor
• perceived freedom
• unaware
• extravagant plans

Tom does all of the following except...

• Comes up with an elaborate escape plan

• Calls upon prison stories and adventure novels

• Combines necessary tactics such as a tunnel and devices including a rope ladder

• Says that Jim needs to keep a journal

Which statement is false?

• Tom's escape plan becomes a comical romantic farce.

• The incongruity of Huck's logic in the face of Tom's imagination creates several humorous exchanges.

• The farce of Tom's escape plan reminds the reader of Twain's earlier work with The Prince and the Pauper.

• Huck replies, "Journal your granny — Jim can't write."

Huck's practical response is ​ (a)   at the same time. On the surface, it is ​ (b)   that Jim does not need to keep a journal, but the fact that Jim is captive during this time is an overriding shadow on the ​ (c)   . The ability to read and write was ​ (d)   among anyone in the mid-1800s, and because Jim is a slave, his being able to write is much ​ (e)   .

• both humorous and revealing
• obvious
• slapstick humor
• not common
• more unlikely

Why can't Huck stop Tom's nonsensical plans?

• He and Jim are trapped within the confines of a racist society.

• Huck doesn't want to hurt Tom's feelings.

• Huck thinks Tom has found the only viable solution.

• all of these

• none of these

Neither Huck nor Jim is able to dissuade or alter Tom's plans except in minor ways, and their failed attempts symbolize their ill-fated efforts to truly escape civilization's conventions. The biting satire is obvious when Huck wonders about the logic of doing this.

• teaching Jim how to write the ABCs

• digging a tunnel with ordinary case-knives

• using a candle to melt mortar and loosen bricks one at a time

• asking an enslaved person to create a distraction