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Huck Finn Review

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 2hrs 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What contrast is established between Huck and Tom?

a)

Huck has many friends; Tom only has a few.

b)

Tom and Huck both are educated.

c)

Tom and Huck both hate pranks.

d)

Tom is imaginative; Huck is a realist.

2.

In his tirades, Pap criticizes

a)

The government

b)

Education

c)

Voting rights of freed slaves

d)

All of These

3.
Who is Sarah Williams?
a)
Huck's Sister
b)
Huck's Aunt
c)
Huck's Grandma
d)
Huck's Alter Ego
4.

Who are the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons?

a)

Feuding families

b)

The mob that goes after Colonel Sherburn

c)

families whose fortunes the Duke and King try to steal

d)

Tom Sawyer's cousins

5.

The Widow Douglass . . .

a)

tries to "sivilize" Huck and send him to school.

b)

teaches Huck religion.

c)

wants Huck's $6,000.

d)

is Tom Sawyer's aunt.

6.

tries to teach Huck religion and frees Jim in the end

a)

Widow Douglass

b)

Miss Watson

c)

Aunt Sally

d)

Tom Sawyer

7.

gets shot and thinks it's part of the adventure

a)

Tom Sawyer

b)

Huck Finn

c)

Jim

d)

The King

8.

get tarred and feathered

a)

The Duke and the King

b)

Jim and Nat

c)

Tom and Huck

d)

Buck and Sophia

9.

The Mississippi River can represent

(select all that apply)

a)

freedom

b)

Huck's journey to maturity

c)

racism

d)

mob mentality

10.

What is the biggest turning point for Huck's character development?

a)

when he decides to free Jim and "go to hell"

b)

when he refuses to go along with Tom's exaggerated plans for freeing Jim

c)

when he meets Jim on the island and decides to travel with him

d)

when he goes along with the Duke and the King's cons

11.

The Duke and the King are . . .

a)

royalty.

b)

con men.

c)

Tom's cousins.

d)

Englishmen.

12.

Tom's relatives who bought Jim when the Duke and King sold him using the fake reward

a)

Aunt Sally and Uncle Silas Phelps

b)

William and Harvey Wilks

c)

Widow Douglass and Miss Watson

d)

Aunt Polly and Sid

13.

uses a pig to fake his death

a)

Huck

b)

Tom

c)

Jim

d)

Pap

14.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens is

a)

Pap's real name.

b)

Mark Twain's real name.

c)

The King's real name.

d)

one of the people the Duke and King cheat.

15.

Sid is

a)

Aunt Sally's son.

b)

Tom's brother.

c)

Huck's fake name at the Phelps farm.

d)

the Grangerford kid.

16.

Which story is the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons similar to?

a)

Romeo and Juliet

b)

Solomon and the Baby

c)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

d)

Shakespeare's Hamlet

17.

Which is revealed at the end of the novel?

a)

Pap took Huck's $6,000.

b)

Judge Thatcher wrote Huck a check for his $6,000.

c)

Jim had been freed by Miss Watson and Tom knew it.

d)

Jim's family was staying with Aunt Polly waiting for him to return.

18.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn suggests that

a)

slavery is wrong even if society and religious people say it is right.

b)

children should never run away from home.

c)

slavery is completely justified and should be supported.

d)

people can never change the views they grew up with.

19.

willing to risk his own freedom for Tom after Tom has put him through torturous prison activities

a)

Jim

b)

Huck

c)

Nat

d)

Uncle Silas

20.

Huck is the main character of the book, which makes him . . .

a)

the protagonist.

b)

the antagonist.

c)

a static character.

d)

ironic.

21.

The following is a definition of which literary term?


the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

a)

irony

b)

satire

c)

conflict

d)

narration

22.

Which of the following themes is not developed in this novel?

a)

Women and men are not equal.

b)

People are foolish creatures.

c)

Friendship can overcome prejudice.

d)

Cruelty is found on all levels.

23.

Twain demonstrates regionalism by writing each character using _________.

a)

slang

b)

dialect

c)

figurative language

d)

connotation

24.

Which character functions as a foil for Huck?

a)

Jim

b)

Pap

c)

Sid

d)

Tom

25.

Which is not part of Huck's elaborate escape plan?

a)

faking his own death

b)

killing a pig

c)

pretending the cabin was robbed

d)

burying money near the river

26.

Who do people speculate killed Huck?

a)

Huck

b)

Jim

c)

Pap

d)

All of these

e)

None of these

27.

Which Shakespearean play is most similar to the story of the Grangerfords and Shephersons?

a)

Julius Caesar

b)

Hamlet

c)

Macbeth

d)

Romeo and Juliet

28.

Which of the duke and king's scams made Huck feel ashamed of the human race?

a)

Cheating the Wilkes girls from their inheritance

b)

Royal Nonesuch

c)

The pirate story

d)

They are all equally terrible to Huck.

29.

Which tests are use to determine the true heirs to the Wilkes fortune? Choose all that are used.

a)

handwriting test

b)

swearing on the Bible

c)

checking the tattoo

d)

DNA analysis

30.

The last time Huck mentions the duke and king, they are

a)

shot.

b)

hanged.

c)

imprisoned.

d)

tarred and feathered.

31.

In this novel, the Mississippi River is a symbol of

a)

pollution.

b)

astrological water signs.

c)

freedom.

d)

hypocrisy.

32.

True or False: This novel is about the good side of humanity.

a)

True

b)

False

33.

True or False: Huck is imaginative, which Tom is a realist.

a)

True

b)

False

34.

True or False: Jim serves as a father figure for Huck throughout the novel.

a)

True

b)

False

35.

True or False: Huck never learns to listen to his conscience over the beliefs of society.

a)

True

b)

False

36.

True of False: Only the lower class show prejudice in this novel.

a)

True

b)

False

37.

Which theme is developed in this statement:


The king and duke are tarred and feathered.

a)

friendship

b)

cruelty

c)

prejudice

d)

foolishness

e)

hypocrisy

38.

Which theme is developed in this statement:


Huck is surprised that Jim cares about and misses his family.

a)

friendship

b)

prejudice

c)

foolishness

d)

hypocrisy

e)

religion

39.

Which theme is developed in this statement:


Jim believes in witches and that they messed with him while he was sleeping under the tree.

a)

friendship

b)

prejudice

c)

foolishness

d)

hypocrisy

e)

religion

40.

Which theme is developed in this statement:


Huck thinks that he will go to hell for freeing Jim.

a)

cruelty

b)

prejudice

c)

foolishness

d)

hypocrisy

e)

religion

41.

The Grangerfords think that the preacher's sermon on brotherly love was especially good.

a)

cruelty

b)

prejudice

c)

foolishness

d)

hypocrisy

e)

friendship

42.

Which theme is developed in this statement:


Jim regularly sacrifices his sleep so that Huck gets a good night's rest.

a)

friendship

b)

cruelty

c)

prejudice

d)

foolishness

e)

hypocrisy

43.

Who said it:


“I don’t know. But that’s what they do. I’ve seen it in books; and so of course that’ what we’ve got to do.”

a)

Huck

b)

Tom

c)

Duke

d)

Pap

e)

Jim

44.

Who said it:


"Look at it, says I—such a hat for me to wear—one of the wealthiest men in this town if I could git my rights."

a)

Huck

b)

Tom

c)

Duke

d)

Pap

e)

Jim

45.

Who said it:


“Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.”

a)

Tom

b)

Huck

c)

Duke

d)

Pap

e)

Jim

46.

Who said it:


"My, but I wuz mad! I was a-gwyne for de chile, but jis’ den - it was a do’ dat open innerds - jis’ den, ‘long come de wind en slam it to, behine de chile, ker-blam! - en my lan’, de child never move!”

a)

Huck

b)

Tom

c)

Duke

d)

Pap

e)

Jim

47.

Who said it:


“Now after tonight we can run in the daytime if we want to. Whenever we see anybody coming we can tie Jim hand and foot with a rope, and lay him in the wigwams and show this handbill and say we captured him up the river, and were too poor to travel on a steamboat, so we got this little raft on credit from our friends and are going down to get the reward.”

a)

Tom

b)

Huck

c)

Duke

d)

Pap

e)

Jim

48.

Who said it:


“Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”

a)

Tom

b)

Huck

c)

Duke

d)

Pap

e)

Jim

49.

Who said it:


“Call this a govment! Why, just look at it and see what it’s like. Here’s the law a-standing ready to take a man’s son away from him — a man’s own son, which he has had all the trouble and all the anxiety and all the expense of raising. Yes, just as that man has got that son raised at last, and ready to go to work and begin to do suthin’ for him and give him a rest, the law up and goes for him. And they call that govment!

a)

Tom

b)

Huck

c)

Duke

d)

Pap

e)

Jim

50.

Who said it:


"It's a dead man. Yes, indeedy; naked, too. He's ben shot in de back. I reck'n he's ben dead two er three days. Come in, Huck, but doan' look at his face—it's too gashly."

a)

Tom

b)

Huck

c)

Duke

d)

Pap

e)

Jim