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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - ch36-38

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Put these events in the proper order.

a)

Tom and Huck try to use the case-knives to dig a tunnel under the cabin.

b)

After a few hours, they realize they need better tools.

c)

Tom decides they will use pick-axes and shovels.

d)

The next night, Tom and Huck easily dig into Jim's cabin and wake him.

1)
2)
3)
4)
2.

Which statement is false?

a)

Jim listens to Tom's plans.

b)

Jim agrees to go along with Tom's plans.

c)

Jim thinks Tom's plan makes good sense.

d)

Tom assures Jim they will change the plans immediately if something goes wrong.

3.

What do the boys begin smuggling?

a)

"escape" tools

b)

milk & cookies

c)

bed sheets

d)

books

e)

money

4.

Who notices that items are missing from her house?

a)

Aunt Polly

b)

Aunt Sally

c)

Uncle Tom

d)

Mary Jane

5.

How do Tom and Huck confuse Aunt Sally?

a)

continually take and replace sheets and spoons

b)

make her forget how many items she had to start with

c)

both of these

d)

neither of these

6.

Tom instructs Jim to make marks on these and throw them out the window.

a)

tin plates

b)

porcelain cups

c)

copper spoons

d)

silver knives

7.

Tom continues to find new distractions for Jim's escape. Tom writes down some inscriptions for Jim to carve into the wall but then realizes the walls are ________.

a)

plaster

b)

straw

c)

brick

d)

wooden

8.

To be done properly and according to the books, Tom says they must have stone. Which statement is true?

a)

Tom tries to roll a marble stone into the cabin, but he is not strong enough.

b)

Huck objects to Tom's farce.

c)

Huck recalls seeing a suitable stone near the river and says he will fetch it.

d)

Jim climbs out of the cabin and helps the boys roll the grindstone.

9.

Despite Jim's protests, Tom decides that the cabin needs these other residents to make it a proper dungeon and Jim a proper prisoner.

a)

an alligator

b)

snakes

c)

spiders

d)

moths

e)

cats

10.

In Chapters 36 through 38, the novel slips further into the farce and is filled with irony.

a)

Huck and Jim view Tom as a representative of society and education

b)

Huck and Tom feel that Tom must know the best way for them to escape.

c)

Neither Huck nor Jim understand why they must perform all of these ludicrous acts before Jim can escape.

d)

all of these

e)

none of these

11.

Jim's continued enslavement ...

a)

Is both absurd and grotesque.

b)

Is a gentle observation of the racial condition of post-Civil War America.

c)

Is necessary to protect Miss Watson.

d)

all of these

e)

none of these

12.

Miss Watson has already set Jim free in her ​ (a)   , but the ability to transcend and change ​ (b)   is not as easily accomplished. Jim, therefore, ​ (c)   despite the fact that he has, indeed, been freed.

Choose from the below words
will
society's perception
remains captive to others
diary
deed
the Constitution
needs white people
13.

When was Huck Finn written?

a)

Before the Civil War

b)

During the Civil War

c)

After the Civil War

14.

The entire novel reflects Twain's own ​ (a)   . Although the ​ (b)   made some attempt at Southern reconstruction, the ​ (c)   quickly fell into ​ (d)   . Conditions for newly freed slaves were no doubt improved, but the longed-for freedom had not come with ​ (e)   , acceptance, or equality.

Choose from the below words
Union
South
changed perceptions
a squalid and segregated ruin
post-Civil War observations
15.

Vocabulary Matching

a)

1.

dog-fennel

b)

2.

escutcheon

c)

3.

jew's harp

d)

4.

mullein stalks