"You's de bes' fren' Jim's ever had; en you's de ONLY fren' ole Jim's got now."
Jim
Who tries to "civilize" Huck?
Widow Douglas and Miss Watson
Down which river do Huck and Jim travel?
Mississippi River
What might Jim represent?
Friendship, honesty, loyalty, plight of slaves
Name any one of the scams perpetrated by the king and the duke
Royal Nonesuch theater
Temperance lecture, dancing school
Cheating Peter Wilks' heirs
Fake "conversion" at the preaching meeting
Jim as a sick Arab
Fake "runaway slave" poster
"All right then, I’ll go to hell"
Huck
What two families were having a feud?
Grangerfords and Shepherdsons
Which town/city do Huck and Jim miss the night of the fog, causing them to continue south down the Mississippi Rive?
Cairo, IL
This symbol represents freedom from the hardships of the real world.
The raft (or the river)
Name two mischievous deeds Huck and Tom do at the Phelps farm
Stealing sheets
Stealing shirts
Stealing silverware
Impersonations of Tom Sawyer, Sid Sawyer
"It's a dead man. Yes, indeedy; naked, too. He's ben shot in de back. I reck'n he's ben dead two er three days."
Jim
This man left a large fortune to his two brothers from England
Peter Wilks
Name of the river that Huck and Jim originally planned to go up by steam boat in order to free Jim
Ohio River
What was the political movement in America to end slavery?
Abolition movement
How does the king find out about Peter Wilks in order to scam the family?
They meet a young man on the river and pump him with questions about numerous details about the family.
The king "went on asking questions until he fairly emptied the young feller"
“What’s the use you learning to do right when it’s troublesome to do right and ain’t no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?”
Tom Sawyer
Name of a band of thieves created by Huck's idealistic friend Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer's Gang
The Island where Huck and Jim began their adventure together
Jackson's Island
This symbol represented Southern Aristocracy.
The Grangerford House
Why do the people at the revival meeting give the king money?
He claims to be a reformed pirate and they give offerings so he can go back and reform other pirates and preach the gospel to them.
“Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain’t that a big enough majority in any town?”
The king
Name two of the Wilks sisters
Mary Jane
Joanna
Susan
Town where the novel starts (hometown of Huck)
(Name of town and state)
St Petersburg, MO
Name two examples of superstition found in the novel
Bad luck to kill a spider
Touching a snake is bad luckBeehive ritual when owner of beehive dies
Hairy chest and arms will make a person rich
Hairball from stomach of ox can tell the future
Jim thinks he sees witches
How do the king and duke successfully deceive the Wilks sisters when they first meet them?
They know many details about the family; the duke pretends to be deaf and mute; they fall upon the sisters, weeping uncontrollably as if they are truly grieving.