Huckleberry Finn wkst 4

Chapters 31- 43

Directions: Answer each question with a complete sentence. Incorporate the question as part of the answer.

1. It was a close place. I took . . . up [the letter I’d written to Miss Watson], and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: “All right then, I’ll go to hell”—and tore it up. It was awful thoughts and awful words, but they was said. And I let them stay said; and never thought no more about reforming.

This is the moral climax of the story for Huck. This is where he changes. Explain this quotation and what it means to both Huck (and for Jim).

2. Sally and Silas Phelps seem like nice people, in fact, they are Tom Sawyer’s aunt and uncle. Are they doing or saying anything bad?

3. Tom told me what his plan was, and I see in a minute it was worth fifteen of mine for style, and would make Jim just as free a man as mine would, and maybe get us all killed besides.

Huck could have broken Jim out of the shed easily. Why does he go along with Tom’s plan?

4. Tom and Huck do many preposterous things in their plan. One was about snakes and rats. Explain this part of the plan.

5. Another part of the plan involved letters. Explain the letters as part of Tom’s plan.

6. How are Tom and Huck similar to the duke and dauphin?

7. How are Tom and Huck’s dealings with Jim during this escape plan similar to every other white owner’s dealings with their slaves?

8. After Tom gets shot, Jim makes a decision that makes Huck conclude that Jim is “white inside.” What decision does Jim make? Would Tom make the same decision for Jim?

9. Once Tom somewhat recovers from his gunwound, he tells everyone something important about Jim. What was this revelation?

10. But I reckon I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before.

Explain what these closing lines from Huck mean.