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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Test

Multiple Choice
1. Who is Huck Finns only surviving relative?
a.
b.
c.
d.

His father
His mother
His brother
His uncle

2. Who adopts Huck Finn?

a.
b.
c.
d.

Tom Sawyer
Aunt Polly
Widow Douglas
Miss Watson

3. How much money does Huck and Tom each have?

a.
b.
c.
d.

$2000
$6000
$12000
$8000

4. How does Huck get away from his father?

a.
b.
c.
d.

He fakes his death

He kills his father
He waits for his father to get drunk and runs away
He contacts Widow Douglas to save him

5. Who does Huck find on Jacksons Island?

a.
b.
c.
d.

His father
Tom Sawyer
No one
Jim

6. What does Huck put in Jims bed before he sleeps?

a.
b.
c.
d.

A rat
A scorpion
A dead snake
Leaves

7. What do the two men that join Huck and Jim call themselves?
a. The King and Queen
b. The Duke and Duchess

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c. Hamlet and Shakespeare
d. The Duke and the Dauphin
8. What family does the Grangerfords have a feud with?
a. The Flocks
b. The Sheperdsons
c. The Heards
d. The Smiths
9. During the last performance of The Duke and Dauphins play, what happens?
a. They are met with a standing ovation
b. No one understands what happened
c. They did not have a final performance
d. All of the towns people come together in order to force a refund from the two men
10. What happens to Jim in the end?
a. He is freed thanks to Ms. Watsons will.
b. He is caught and sold in Louisiana
c. He is shot in order to save Huck
d. He abandons Huck for his own needs.

True or False
1. Pap is a responsible father
a. True
b. False

2. Toms gang gives up because they are unable to do get any ransoms.
a. True
b. False

3. Tom scares Jim by putting his hat on a branch.

a. True
b. False
4. Pap takes Huck away to live in Louisiana
a. True
b. False
5. When Huck meets Jim on the island, he wants nothing to do with him.
a. True
b. False

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6. Huck and Jim find a house floating on the river

a. True
b. False
7. The Duke and the Dauphin are truly royalty.
a. True
b. False
8. Huck has no wishes to be civilized
a. True
b. False
9. Jim and Huck take the Wilks money for themselves
a. True
b. False

10.

Tom Sawyer dies from his gunshot

a.
b.
11.

True
False

Huck runs away to live on his own in the end

a.
b.

True
False

12.

Aunt Polly comes to the Silias house in order to tell them that who
they think is Tom is actually Huck

a.
b.
13.

True
False

No one gets harmed during the Gangford feud

a.
b.
14.

True
False

Aunt Sally believes Huck is Tom

a.
b.

True
False

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15.The Phelps family keeps Jim as a run-away slave

a. True
b. False
Characters
1. Drunk, abusive father that tries to steal his sons money (g)
2. Run-away slave that befriends Huck Finn (h)
3. Best Friend to Huck; troublemaker (b)
4. Slave Owner and sister to Widow Douglas (i)
5. Title Character; Runs away from home to be freed from his father (a)
6. Con-man who claims to be the son of King Louis XVI (e)
7. Aunt of Tom Sawyer; believes Huck to be Tom (j)
8. Father figure to Huck; is in charge of Hucks money (d)
9. Toms guardian and who dismisses all of the confusion in the end (c)
10.Man who dies and leaves his fortune to his two English brothers (f)
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.

Huck Finn
Tom Sawyer
Aunt Polly
Judge Thatcher
The Dauphin
Peter Wilkes
Pap
Jim
Miss Watson
Sally Phelps

Quotes
1. Youve put on considerable many frills since I been away. Ill take you
down a peg before I get done with you. (g)

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2. How you talk, Huck Finn. Why, youd HAVE to come when he rubbed it,
whether you wanted to or not. (b)
3. Quite a fortune for you. You had better let me invest it along with your six
thousand, because if you take it youll spend it. (d)
4. You dont know about me without you have read a book by the name of
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that aint no matter. (a)
5. Dont put your feet up there, HuckleberryDont scrunch up like that,
Huckleberry set up straight Dont gap and stretch like that, Huckleberry
why dont you try to behave? (i)
6. Well, it's a blame ridicklous way, en I doan' want to hear no mo' 'bout it.
Dey ain' no sense in it (h)
7. Because Mary Jane 'll be in mourning from this out; and first you know the
nigger that does up the rooms will get an order to box these duds up and put
'em away; and do you reckon a nigger can run across money and not borrow
some of it? (e)
8. Look at that, now! I might have expected it, letting him go off that way
without anybody to watch him. (c)
9. Well, I never heard the likes of it in all my born days! So it was YOU, you
little rapscallions, thats been making all this trouble, and turned everybodys
wits clean inside out and scared us all most to death. (j)
10.Why, TOM! Where you been all this time, you rascal? ... Why, where ever
did you go? Your aunts been mighty uneasy. (f)
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.

Huck Finn
Tom Sawyer
Aunt Polly
Judge Thatcher
The Duke
Silas Phelps
Pap
Jim
Miss Watson
Sally Phelps

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Short Answer
1. What is the setting of the novel?
a. Close to the Mississippi River, slightly before the Civil War began.
2. What happened to Hucks parents?
a. Hucks mother died of tuberculosis when Huck was too young to
remember and his father is a drunk who abandoned him. By the end of
the novel, Hucks father is found dead in a floating house.
3. Why doesnt Huck turn in Jim?
a. Huck finds no problems with black people and thinks they deserve to
be free
4. Who does Tom pretend to be in front of Aunt Sally and why?
a. He pretends to be his half-brother because Sally thinks Huck is Tom.
5. What happens to Huck and Jim by the end of the novel?
a. Jim is a freed man because Miss Watson said so in her will, and Huck
was adopted by Aunt Sally