Huck's best friend and the leader of the "band of robbers."
What is Tom Sawyer?
100
As Huck becomes more compassionate toward Jim's situation, he is experiencing ___, one of the book's major themes.
What is coming-of-age?
100
Huck calls Miss Watson an __ maid, which means that she has never been married.
What is Old?
100
"The moon rose, a glowing ember behind the fleecy clouds.
What is metaphor?
100
Huck Finn was rejected by many of its first readers due to Huck's ___.
What is vulgarity or baseness?
200
Jim reveals that his daughter has what disability?
What is deafness?
200
Twain believed that __ like that between the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons were eroding the values of Southern society.
What are feuds?
200
If Huck was 14 during the telling of the story, he would have been in his thirties during what historical event?
What is the Civil War?
200
Twain uses __ to gently poke fun of his characters and his audience, for instance in exaggerating the romantic ideas that Emmeline has about death.
What is satire?
200
The author's real name
What is Samuel Clemens
300
Deceased character who is admired for her poetry about death and her fantastical drawings.
What is Emmeline Grangerford?
300
It is ___ for pap to claim he has spent so much worry and work raising Huck, when in fact he's just interested in Huck's money.
What is hypocritical?
300
When a slave was "sold down the __" it almost always meant worse treatment and permanent separation from his family.
What is river?
300
The thunderstorm was punishing us for lying to the minister earlier that day.
What is personification?
300
Although he was raised in Missouri, the author spent most of his adult years in what state?
What is Connecticut?
400
Psychologist who studied the stages of moral development.
What is Kohlberg?
400
Huck is proof that a person can basically like the members of a group while still having ideas that they are "all one way," which is a __.
What is stereotype?
400
What escaped slave woman led hundreds of slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad?
What is Harriet Tubman?
400
I was so hungry I emptied the whole plate without taking a breath.
What is hyperbole?
400
As a newspaper reporter in San Francisco, Twain tried to combat racism against people from what country?
What is China?
500
Huck Finn was, in a sense, the sequel to what much more popular Twain book?
What is The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?
500
It is ironic and hypocritical that the Grangerfords are so complimentary on the sermon about __, when the whole time they have been holding on to their guns.
What is brotherly love?
500
What was the line that separated the slave states from the free ones?
What is the Mason-Dixon line?
500
Denham's Dentifrice, Dentifrice, Dentifrice.
What is Alliteration?
500
The town of St. Petersburg is really Twain's Missouri hometown of __.