Huck Finn Geography
Who said it?
Attention to Detail
Target of Satire
I know Douglass
100
The name of the real hometown of Mark Twain and the basis for the initial fictional setting of his novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
What is Hannibal, Missouri?
100
"I lived in Master Hugh's family about seven years. During this time, I succeeded in learning to read and write."
Who is Frederick Douglass?
100
This is the Spanish title of one of Tom Sawyer's favorite books.
What is Don Quixote?
100
This is the form of satire where someone makes fun of a well known genre, work of art, artist or well known figure with comedic exaggeration.
What is parody?
100
Frederick was raised in this state.
What is Maryland?
200
On which side of the river is Pap's Cabin located--the Missouri side or the Illinois side?
What is the Illinois side?
200
"Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on. Kill the women? No--nobody ever saw anything in the books like that."
Who is Tom Sawyer?
200
This metallic liquid is placed in a loaf of bread to lead the searchers to Huck's body.
What is Mercury?
200
The fact that Mrs. Loftus feels empathy for Huck/Sarah Williams/George Peters escape from a bad situation and not feel any empathy towards Jim's escape from slavery could be seen as an example of this satirical technique.
What is irony?
200
Describe Douglass's method or strategy of becoming educated.
What is by tricking white men/boys into teaching him how to read?
300
Two great American rivers collide at Cairo, Illinois. What are these two rivers.
What are the Mississippi and the Ohio Rivers?
300
"Here's a govment that calls itself a govment, and yet's got to set stock-still for six whole months before it can take ahold of a prowling, thieving, infernal, white-shirted free (blank)."
Who is Pap?
300
This is the name of the shipwrecked steamboat that Huck and Jim come across in Chapters 12-13. Bonus if you can state the name and the satirical significance of that name.
What is the Walter Scott?
300
In Chapter 18, Huck says that "Colonel Grangerford was a gentleman, you see. He was a gentleman all over; and so was his family. He was well born, as the saying is." What is ironic about the word "gentleman" being used to describe Grangerford?
What is Grangerford is described as a gentleman and carries himself that way; however, he engages in and leads the systematic killing and feuding with the Shepherdson clan?
300
How did Frederick Douglass stop the whippings?
What is "by fighting back?"
400
What is ironic (think directional irony) about the fact that Huck and Jim, in their search for freedom, miss the turn at Cairo?
Many possible answers including: What is, they end up heading south literally and figuratively into the realm of slavery? They are seeking freedom, but heading south leads them deeper into slave territory.
400
"Dey's two gals flyin' 'bout you in yo' life. One uv 'em's light en 'tother one is dark. One is rich en 'tother is po'. You's gwyne to marry do po' one fust en de rich one by-en-by."
Who is Jim?
400
Huck Finn often uses aliases or fictitious names when he leaves the raft. What are at least two of the fictional names he uses?
What is Sarah Williams, Mary Williams, Sarah Mary Williams and George Peters?
400
The new Judge, after prioritizing Pap's rights over Huck's rights, attempts to reform Pap without knowing his background.
Several answers are possible including blind justice, naive social reform, bleeding-heart reform, and misplaced sense of justice.
400
What did Frederick Douglass accomplish after he fled slavery and started a new life in the north?
What is became an abolitionist leader, a great orator, and a supporter of the underground railroad and the recruitment of black soldiers to fight for the union cause.
500
Speed and Organization Challenge/Daily Double In the Langston Hughes poetry handout you received on Wednesday--"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"--the poet mentions several rivers in his poem. This is a three-part question and you must be the first person in your team to successfully answer all four questions to receive credit. 1) How many specific rivers are mentioned? 2) What are the names of these rivers? 3) On what continent and in what modern country are these rivers located in the poem? 4) Identify at least three connections--can be thematic/symbolic/historic--between these rivers in the poem with the river in Huck Finn.
1) What is four rivers? 2) What are the Euphrates, the Congo, the Nile, and the Mississipi? 3) The Euphrates is located in located in Modern Iraq in the Middle East and on the Asian continent. The Nile is in the nation of Egypt (other nations too but the Pyramids narrow it down to Egypt) and the continent of Africa. The Congo is in the nation of Congo and it flows through the heart of the African Continent. 4) Many connections are possible.
500
"Dont put your feet up there, Huckleberry...dont scrunch up like that, Huckleberry--set up straight...dont gap and stretch like that, Huckleberry--why don't you try to behave?"
Who is Miss Watson?
500
In Chapter 17, Huck comes across a poem written by the now deceased Emmeline Grangerford titled "Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec'd." What are at least two specific themes or specific actions that happen in this poem?
What is death, memory, and the elevation of the soul in death etc.? Actions include falling down a well, drowning and being brought back up dead (but he rises to heaven and memory).
500
Team Challenge There are several targets of satire. List as many as you can in one minute. The team with the most targets in one minute gets double bonus points.
Many answers are possible.
500
What is a line from the song that the slaves would sing in the woods on the way to Colonel Lloyd's home plantation.
What is "I am going away to the great house farm!" "O, yea! O, yea! O!
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