A band of thieves created by Huck's idealistic friend Tom Sawyer
What is Tom Sawyer's Gang?
100
This man used the Pseudonym, Mark Twain.
Who is Samuel Clemens?
100
A Supreme Court decision that stated that people of African descent are not protected by the Constitution
What is The Dred Scott Decision?
100
This symbol represents freedom, easy living, and Huck and Jim's journey.
What is the Mississippi River?
200
"you's de bes' fren' Jim's ever had; en you's de ONLY fren' ole Jim's got now."
Who is Jim?
200
Two families who have a bloody feud going on.
Who are the Shepherdson's and the Grangerford's?
200
This book is in response to the author's distaste for slavery.
What is "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"?
200
The political movement in America to end slavery
What is Abolitionism?
200
This symbol represented Southern Aristocracy.
What is the Grangerford's house?
300
"Tramp – tramp – tramp; that's the dead; tramp – tramp – tramp; they're coming after me; but I won't go. Oh, they're here! don't touch me – don't! hands off – they're cold; let go. Oh, let a poor devil alone!"
Who is Pap?
300
The Island where Huck and Jim began their adventure together
What is Jackson's Island?
300
Native Americans and westerners in general.
Who was Mark Twain prejudiced against?
300
Group of American states to secede from the Union
What is The Confederate States of America?
300
This symbol represents freedom from the hardships of the real world.
What is the raft?
400
"Did you want to kill him ...?"
"Well, I bet I did."
"What did he do to you?"
"Him? He never done nothing to me."
"Well, then, what did you want to kill him for?"
"Why nothing - only it's on account of the feud."
Huck converses with this person.
Who is Buck Grangerford
400
Name of the river that Huck and Jim originally planned to go up by steam boat in order to free Jim
What is the Ohio River?
400
Tom Blankenship
Who is the character, Huckleberry Finn, modeled after?
400
Document that freed slaves in the Confederacy
What is The Emancipation Proclomation
400
Political, institutional, religious, biological, psychological, and moral.
What types of slavery does Mark Twain address in Huck Finn?
500
"Well, I'd been selling an article to take the tartar off the teeth - and it does take it off, too, and generly the enamel along with it."
Who is the dauphin?
500
This family has lost four sons in a long running feud.
Who is the Grangerford family?
500
Mark Twain wrote about these things, but struggled with them in his own life.
What are formal religion, money scams, and prejudice?
500
Relates to growing up. A sensitive youth goes in search about the big questions in life. Achieves maturity through experience. The psychological growth from childhood to adulthood.
What is "bildungsroman" literature.
500
This theme is most prevalent between Jim and Huck throughout the novel.