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Characters
Events and Themes
Geography
Terms
Huckleberry Finn
100
Huck Finn's best friend
Who is Tom Sawyer?
100
This theme is shown when Huck is at the circus.
What is development of moral conscience?
100
River that encompassed Huck's journey
What is the Mississippi?
100
Defined at the contrast between what the character thinks to be true and what we (the reader) know to be true.
What is Dramatic irony?
100
The author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Who is Mark Twain?
200
Black slave who becomes a central character in the novel
Who is Jim?
200
This causes Huck's witnessing of Buck's death.
What is the family feud between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons.
200
Island where Huck and Jim meet
What is Jackson's Island?
200
An exaggerated "picture" of a character or group.
What is caricature?
200
The novel's full title.
What is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
300
Huck's alcoholic father
What is Pap?
300
Injury suffered by Jim resulting from a trick Huck plays on him.
What is a snakebite?
300
Huck pretends to be Tom Sawyer
What is Silas Phelps's farm?
300
Aspect of Realism regarding attention to culture.
What is Regionalism?
300
This initiated Twain's writing career.
What is journalism?
400
Sister of the Widow Douglas, she tells Huck about the "bad place."
Who is Miss Watson?
400
Mrs. Judith Loftus recognizes Huck is a boy and not a girl through these three actions.
What is the way he throws, the way he threads a needle, and the way he catches an object on his lap?
400
Huck witnesses Sherburn shoot Boggs
What is Arkansas?
400
The type of satire that aims to correct through humor.
What is Horatian satire?
400
This satirizes Twain's critics by mocking their belief that the novel simply contains the overuse of the n-word and racist undertones.
What is the "Notice" at the beginning of the novel?
500
He saves Huck's money by "buying" it from Huck
Who is Judge Thatcher?
500
When Aunt Sally finds out that a broken cylinder-head "killed a n****r" and replies "Well, it's lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt."
What is an example of racism?
500
City where Huck and Jim plan to go north toward freedom for Jim.
What is Cairo?
500
One of three key facts about Realism.
What is more emphasis on character than on plot? What is humans controlled their destiny? What is character is superior to circumstance?
500
Twain's full name.
What is Samuel Langhorne Clemens?