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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Practice Test ANSWERS

Honors English IIIB - Kiel

True or False

F 1. At the beginning of the novel, Huck lives with Aunt Polly and Miss Watson.
T 2. Jim belongs to Miss Watson.
F 3. Huck is not allowed to be a part of Tom Sawyer’s gang.
T 4. Buck Grangerford is killed in a feud.
T 5. Huck thinks slavery is wrong. (by the end of the story…)
T 6. Huck knows from the beginning that the duke and king are frauds.
F 7. When he is staying with the Wilks, Huck pretends to be the king’s son.
F 8. At the end of the novel, Huck returns to live with Aunt Polly.

Fill in the Blanks

9. Huck’s father is mainly interested in getting Huck’s money .

10. When he visits Mrs. Loftus, Huck pretends to be a girl

11. People think that Huck was killed either by his father or by Jim

12. The raft is hit by a steamboat

13. Emmeline Grangerford wrote poetry about death

14. The townspeople discover the Wilks’ gold in Peter Wilks’ coffin

15. Jim gets away during the “evasion” but Tom is shot (in the leg)

16. At the end of the novel, Huck discovers that his father is dead

Matching – match the character to his/her description.

E 17. Tom A. the town drunk


F 18. Peter Wilks B. prays in a closet
G 19. Aunt Sally C. a printer by trade
I 20. Mary Jane D. is given Huck’s money
C 21. The duke E. admires The Iron Mask
A 22. Pap F. has a noisy funeral
B 23. Miss Watson G. has trouble counting spoons
H 24. The king H. betrays Jim for forty dollars
D 25. Judge Thatcher I. has “sand”
26. When do you think Huck began to see Jim as a human being?
think about the times when Huck has maybe considered turning Jim in? Or emotional moments?

27. What is significant about Jim covering up the dead body early on in the novel?
Jim covers up what is Pap’s dead body (though Huck doesn’t learn this until the end of the novel…)
think about what message Twain might be trying to send…does it say something about character?
social commentary? lessons on how to be a man? Lots of ways to answer this one!

28. Why do you think Twain chose Huck as a narrator


Well, since it says what do YOU think…. ☺ consider what you know about Huck as a character and
how/why the story might be different if someone else told it…

29. Satire
Explain an example of satire used in the novel:
Review your notes! Be able to: explain the example of satire (what it is/where it occurs in the novel),
how it is used, what it criticizes, is it effective, etc….

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