The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

PowerPoint Quiz

NAME: _______________________________

1. Mark Twain’s real name was Samuel Langhorne _____________________.

2. He was born and died on the night that ________________’s Comet appeared in the sky.
3. Twain’s works include:
a. _______________ books
b. Historic _____________
c. Short _______________
4. Twain’s best known works are
a. The Adventures of ______________________________________
b. The Adventures of ______________________________________
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the ________________ to The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer.
6. Mark Twain described the theme of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as, “A sound
______________ and a deformed ________________ come into collision, and
conscience suffers ____________________.
7. The narrator and protagonist of the novel is __________________________________.
8. A message of a story, poem, novel, or play is called the _____________________.
9. Twain exposes the hypocrisy of ____________________ and demonstrates how
___________________ distorts the oppressors as much as the oppressed.
10. Huck is an __________________________ boy.
11. For Huck Finn, being “________________________” means regular baths, going to
school, and rules that defy logic.
12. ____________________ are recurring structures, contrasts, or literary devices that can
help to develop and inform the text’s major themes
13. The major conflict in the novel is Huck’s struggle with his “__________________
conscience.”
14. The major symbol in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the
_________________________________________. (The next question is also from this
slide.)

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15. For Huck, life on the river is _______________________ and life on the shore is
_____________________.
16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been a controversial book since it was first
published in 1885 because of its
a. inappropriate _____________________
b. ___________________ slurs
17. A critic’s review in 1884 hailed the book as “Mark Twain at his _____________.”
18. In 1885, the Concord Library Committee stated the book was “a low grade of
___________________.”
19. In 1992, a writer from the Washington Post criticized the book stating, “Huckleberry
Finn uses the pejorative [insulting] term ‘_________________’ profusely.”
20. Another review from 1992 suggests that the “voice” of Huck Finn might have actually
been _______________.
21. Mark Twain did not like black people and was a racist.
a. True
b. False