Characters
Literary Terms
Plot
Lies
Themes
100
Who does Huck run away from when he leaves the cabin?
Pap.
100
What type of humor uses irony and exaggeration to poke fun and criticize people or society's stupidity or faults?
Satire.
100
How does Huck escape from the cabin before going to Jackson Island?
He fakes his own death by killing a pig and making it look like the cabin had been robbed.
100
What does Huck tell the slave traders to protect Jim when they ask about him on the raft?
He tells them that Jim is white, and that he is his father, sick with smallpox.
100
Which group is Mark Twain targeting through the Grangerford/Shepherdson feud?
The Southern Aristocracy
200
Who calls Huck "trash"?
Jim.
200
What is realism?
"The faithful representation of reality," or showing how the world really is in literature.
200
What is it that Huck does to be called "trash?"
He fools Jim in the fog by telling him it was all a dream.
200
How does Huck get out of trouble when he forgets his fake name when he is with Buck?
He asks Buck to prove he can spell, and Buck spells out his fake name for him.
200
Why is Huck surprised when Jim talks about missing his family?
Because he was brought up to believe that black people where not capable of the same emotions as white people.
300
Who is Huck's friend who reads too many adventure novels and leads the gang of boys in St. Petersburg?
Tom Sawyer.
300
Huck, who often exaggerates or makes mistakes, is an example of what kind of narrator?
An unreliable narrator.
300
Why did Jim run off?
Miss Watson was possibly going to sell him down to New Orleans.
300
What is the name of the outrageous performance by the Duke and Dauphin that features the Dauphin prancing around naked?
The Royal Nonesuch.
300
Why does Huck decide he will "go to Hell"?
He has decided to defy the rules of his time/society and help Jim to freedom.
400
Which character sees through Huck's disguise when he pretends to be a girl?
Mrs. Loftus.
400
Using ordinary speech rather than formal writing, especially to mimic the way people actually talk in a given time period.
What is the vernacular?
400
How do the Duke and Dauphin plan to cheat the Wilks' sisters out of their money?
They impersonate the orphan sisters' uncles from England to take their inheritance
400
How does Sophia Grangerford manage to communicate to Harney Shepherdson?
She passes notes to him through Huck, who can't read cursive.
400
Why wouldn't Jim let Huck see the dead man they find in the house?
The dead man was Pap.
500
Which character looks after Huck's $6,000?
Judge Thatcher.
500
The German term, bildungsroman, refers to what kind of story?
A coming of age story, involving a loss of innocence and growth in a young character.
500
Why is Jim allowed to go free at the end of the novel?
Miss Watson dies and had already freed him in her will before Tom's crazy plan.
500
Who sees through the Duke and Dauphin's scheme with the orphan girls right away?
The doctor.
500
Why does Huck decide to "light out" for the territories at the end of the novel?
They were going to try and "sivilize" him again.
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