Plot Events
How does Huck escape from Pap?
He fakes his own murder.
What town is Huck from?
St. Petersburg, Missouri
Who is the protagonist of the novel?
Huckleberry Finn
What is Mark Twain's real name?
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
"You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
Colloquialism
Why does Jim run away from Miss Watson?
He fears she will sell him to a slave trader for $800.00.
What country does the King claim to be from?
France
Who is the protagonist's partner throughout most of the novel?
Jim
When was The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published?
1885
"I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead."
Hyperbole
What causes Jim and Huck to miss Cairo, Illinois?
Jim and Huck become separated in the fog and miss the town unknowingly.
On what river does most of the novel take place?
The Mississippi River
What do the two con men whom Huck and Jim meet call themselves?
The Duke and the King
What period in American history does Twain portray throughout the novel?
The Antebellum (pre-Civil War) period during the 1830s and 1840s
"To think I should have lived to be leading such a life . . . "
Irony
What happens in the Grangerford-Shepherdson feud?
Violence erupts, and many characters die.
To which island to Huck and Jim initially escape?
Jackson's Island
According to Huck, which two characters try to civilize him?
The Widow Douglas and Miss Watson
In what city and state was Mark Twain Born?
Hannibal, Missouri
"Sometimes we'd have that whole river to ourselves for the longest time."
Symbol
From which Shakespearean play does the King attempt to recite a soliloquy (a monologue delivered when a character is alone on stage)?
Hamlet
In which geographical direction are Huck and Jim traveling on the river?
South
Which character's death deeply impacts Huck and exposes the cost of senseless violence?
Buck Grangerford
Which famous twentieth-century American writer asserted, "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn"?
Ernest Hemingway
"What was the trouble about, Buck? -- land?"
Satire