Characters
Invested Tom and Hucks money
Judge Thatcher
The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an example of which of the following:
A. Romanticism
B. Transcendentalism
C. Realism
D. Imaginism
C. Realism
When Pap wakes up and finds Huck asleep with the gun, Huck says...
A. he was going to kill Pap
B. somebody tried to get in the cabin
C. rats were keeping him awake so he decided to shoot them
D. he was protecting Pap from fugitive slaves
B. somebody tried to get in the cabin
Described as an "awful beautiful" redhead
Mary Jane Wilks
Humorous writing for the purpose of reforming human behavior or social institutions is known as...
A. suspense
B. regionalism
C. satire
D. irony
C. satire
Invented overly complicated plans to save Jim
Tom Sawyer
This novel is all of the following EXCEPT...
A. a novel that uses dialect
B. a correct picture of life at the time
C. a drama of moral conflict
D. a third-person narrative
D. a third-person narrative
When Jim and Huck find the corpse on the houseboat, Jim covers it and says...
A. "Doan look at your daid Pap."
B. "Doan come over here or de witches will get yer."
C. "...it's too gashly."
D. "It's bad luck to look at a daid man."
C. "...it's too gashly."
Eloped with a Sheperdson
Sophia Grangerford
"To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin" is the first line of:
A. Hamlet's soliloquy
B. Romeo's soliloquy
C. the duke's version of Hamlet's soliloquy
D. Huck's version of Romeo's soliloquy
C. the duke's version of Romeo's soliloquy
Boggs
The major conflict in the novel is...
A. Huck vs. Tom
B. Huck vs. Society
C. Huck vs. Jim
D. Huck vs. Nature
B. Huck vs. Society
According to Jim, all of the following bring bad luck EXCEPT:
A. counting the things cooked for dinner
B. shaking the tablecloth after sundown
C. having hairy arms and chest
D. handling a snakeskin
C. having hairy arms and chest
Was killed during the feud
Buck Grangerford
Huck and Jim's flight is ironic because:
A. Jim dies of smallpox in the end.
B. Huck is jailed for helping a runaway slave.
C. they are both forced to return to St. Petersburg.
D. Jim has been freed in Miss Watson's will.
D. Jim has been freed in Miss Watson's will.
She mistakes Huck for Tom Sawyer
Aunt Sally
The character that most clearly serves as a foil to the novel's protagonist (Huck) is...
A. Tom Sawyer
B. Mary Jane Wilks
C. Miss Watson
D. Jim
A. Tom Sawyer
Jim says he "run off" because...
A. Miss Watson was always picking on him
B. Miss Watson treated him roughly
C. Miss Watson was going to sell him down the river
D. Miss Watson saw him stealing food from her kitchen
C. Miss Watson was going to sell him down the river
She had "brain fever"
Widow Douglas
Huck assumes the identity of Tom Sawyer because...
A. Mrs. Phelps calls him "Tom" when he first arrives.
B. Mr. Phelps cannot see very well and is the first to call him "Tom."
C. he decided to use Tom's name before he got to the farm.
D. Jim suggests Huck use Tom's name before he got to the farm.
A. Mrs. Phelps calls him "Tom" when he first arrives.
William Wilks
In the scope of the novel, Twain implies...
A. a man must follow the rules and conventions of society in order to be happy
B. slavery is a necessary institution
C. man's best decisions are made from the goodness of his own heart
D. boys always follow in their father's footsteps
C. man's best decisions are made from the goodness of his own heart
Col. Sherburn is not lynched because...
A. he killed Boggs in self-defense
B. he is given a fair trial and found not guilty
C. the lynch mob is cowardly
D. Huck saves him at the last minute
C. the lynch mob is cowardly
Elexander Blodgett is an alias for which character?
The king
The duke and the king are...
A. hanged and buried on the Wilks' property
B. tarred, feathered and ridden out of town on a rail
C. freed by the sheriff
D. arrested for fraud and theft
B. tarred, feathered and ridden out of town on a rail