Huck Finn Quiz 1
1. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer each received _____ dollars when they found money that the robbers had hidden in the cave.
A. no money
B. $3,000
C. $6,000
D. $12,000
2. Tom Sawyer has the others boys form a band of:
A. robbers
B. beggars
C. pirates
D. royalty
3. At the beginning of the novel, why does Huck quit Tom Sawyer’s gang?
A. he has no parent to ransom
B. he feels guilty about robbing people
C. the gang’s adventures are imaginary
D. the Widow forces him to quit
4. Huck’s Pap returns because he:
A. wants revenge on Judge Thatcher
B. wants Huck’s money
C. misses his son
D. all of the above
5. How does Huck cover up his escape from Pap’s cabin?
A. he leaves a note
B. he doesn’t; he just escapes
C. he leaves evidence indicating that Jim was at fault
D. he makes it look as if a robber killed him
6. When Jim first sees Huck Finn on the island, he thinks Huck:
A. is trying to bewitch him
B. is a ghost
C. has come to arrest him
D. has run away from home
7. Jim runs away from Miss Watson because:
A. he wants to spend time with Huck
B. she is
planning to sell him to a slave trader who will take him to
C. he is tired of being a slave
D. he wants to be re-united with his family
8. During their travels down the river, Huck talks to Jim about all of the following except:
A. royalty
B. money
C. women
D. food
9. Huck escapes to
A. Jim is there
B. Miss Watson is there
C. Pap is there
D. it is deserted
10. Jim is all of the following except:
A. superstitious
B. hard-working
C. motherly
D. foolish
11. The narrator of the story is:
A. Pap
B. Jim
C. Huck
D. Tom
12. The Duke and King are primarily:
A. con-men
B. beggars
C. thieves
D. actors
13. What are the Grangerfords and the Shepardsons feuding about?
A. the theft of cattle
B. nobody really remembers
C. a land dispute
D. the death of an infant
14. Who says the following: “Doan hurt me – don’t! I hain’t ever done no harm to a ghos’. I awluz liked dead people, en done all I could for ‘em.”
A. Huck
B. The Duke
C. Jim
D. Tom Sawyer
15. Miss Sophia Grangerford runs away with:
A. Huck and Jim
B. Harney Shepardson
C. Tom Sawyer
D. The Duke and King
16-20: Put these
events in order.
A. Huck joins the Grangerford family
B. Pap shows up after being gone one year
C. The Duke and King join Huck and Jim
D. Huck and Jim run away
E. Two murderers drown in a wrecked boat along with their victim
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True/False. Answer these statements as True or False.
21. The new judge tried to reform Pap.
22. A snake bites Huck, so Jim must care for him.
23. Jim is accused of murdering Huck.
24. Colonel Sherburn faces down a mob that has come to lynch him.
25. Pap makes it look like Huck has been murdered.