Question 1

What is the name of the town where the action begins?

Accepted Answer

St. Petersburg

Answer

Hannibal

Answer

St. Louis

Answer

Cairo

Question 2

Who is the main character of the book?

Accepted Answer

Huck Finn

Answer

Pap

Answer

Tom Sawyer

Answer

Jim

Question 3

What family does the main character have?

Accepted Answer

Only his Pap

Answer

Aunts & Uncles

Answer

His mom & dad

Answer

Widow Douglas

Question 4

Describe the main character.

Accepted Answer

All of the choices

Answer

13 years old

Answer

Uncivilized

Answer

Abused & neglected

Question 5

Which one was not part of Huck's plan of escape?

Accepted Answer

Climbed out the chimney of the cabin

Answer

Used a bag of rocks for his body

Answer

Took everything in the cabin except the ax

Answer

Broke the door with an ax

Question 6

Who was Jim?

Accepted Answer

Slave owned by Miss Watson

Answer

Miss Watson's neighbor

Answer

Pap's best friend

Answer

Huck's classmate

Question 7

Why was Jim on Jackson's Island?

Accepted Answer

He had run away because Miss Watson was going to sell him.

Answer

He was fishing for food for his family

Answer

He wanted to get away and have some alone time

Answer

He had a fight with his wife and was hiding out

Question 8

What was the name of the lady Huck talked to in disguise?

Accepted Answer

Mrs. Judith Loftis

Answer

Miss Julia Jones

Answer

Mrs. Molly Kleinschmit

Answer

Mrs. Hannah Blume

Question 9

Where are Huck and Jim heading when they leave the island?

Accepted Answer

Down river to Cairo

Answer

Across to Illinois

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Back to the cabin

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Up river to the nearest town

Question 10

Why does Huck feel so guilty during most of the book?

Accepted Answer

He is helping a slave escape

Answer

He left Widow Douglas

Answer

He let his Pap believe he is dead

Answer

He is missing lots of school

Question 11

Why does Huck believe helping Jim is a sin?

Accepted Answer

All the answers

Answer

The church taught him that

Answer

His Pap taught him that

Answer

The town taught him that

Question 12

Who were Jake Packard, Bill Packard, and Jim Turner?

Accepted Answer

The robbers & killers on the steamboat

Answer

The men on the raft hunting runaway slaves

Answer

The searchers from the town

Answer

The men Huck talked to on shore

Question 13

How did Huck & Jim miss Cairo?

Accepted Answer

The passed it in the fog

Answer

They were asleep and floated by

Answer

They were on the wrong side of the river

Answer

They decided not to stop

Question 14

Which family was Huck connected to during the feud?

Accepted Answer

Grangerfords

Answer

Shepherdsons

Answer

Mangelsons

Answer

Phelps

Question 15

What happened to Buck?

Accepted Answer

He was shot and killed

Answer

He was sent to jail for murder

Answer

He ran off with Sophia

Answer

He was sent away to school

Question 16

Who were the King & Duke?

Accepted Answer

Conmen

Answer

Exiled royalty

Answer

Slave Traders

Answer

Murderers

Question 17

Who was George Jackson?

Accepted Answer

Huck at the Grangerfords

Answer

Huck at the Phelpses

Answer

Huck at the Shepherdsons

Answer

Huck at the Wilkses

Question 18

What was the most profitable scheme of the King & Duke?

Accepted Answer

Royal Nonesuch

Answer

Reforming the Pirates

Answer

Selling Jim

Answer

Impersonating the Wilks brothers

Question 19

What does Mark Twain mean?

Accepted Answer

Two fathoms/12 feet of safe water

Answer

Two fathoms/24 feet of safe water

Answer

12 fathoms of safe water

Answer

One fathom/6 feet of safe water

Question 20

Which river does the action take place on?

Accepted Answer

Mississippi

Answer

Platte

Answer

Missouri

Answer

Elkhorn

Question 21

What was the name of the recently dead brother?

Accepted Answer

Peter

Answer

Harvey

Answer

William

Answer

George

Question 22

What was the name of the deaf and mute brother?

Accepted Answer

William

Answer

Peter

Answer

Harvey

Answer

George

Question 23

What was the name of the only married brother?

Accepted Answer

George

Answer

Peter

Answer

William

Answer

Harvey

Question 24

What was the name of the brother who was a minister?

Accepted Answer

Harvey

Answer

Peter

Answer

William

Answer

George

Question 25

Which brother did the King pretend to be?

Accepted Answer

Harvey

Answer

Peter

Answer

William

Answer

George

Question 26

Which brother did the Duke pretend to be?

Accepted Answer

William

Answer

Harvey

Answer

Peter

Answer

George

Question 27

Who did Huck tell about the frauds?

Accepted Answer

Mary Jane

Answer

Sally

Answer

Susan

Answer

Joanna

Question 28

How did Huck get away from the Wilks' situation?

Accepted Answer

Got loose when the gold was found

Answer

Broke out of jail during the storm

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Convinced the Dr. he was innocent

Answer

Mary Jane helped him escape

Question 29

How much did the King get for selling Jim?

Accepted Answer

$40.00

Answer

$30.00

Answer

$200.00

Answer

$300.00

Question 30

Who did Sally & Silas Phelps turn out to be?

Accepted Answer

Tom Sawyer's aunt & uncle

Answer

Huck's cousins

Answer

Huck's aunt & uncle

Answer

Tom's cousins

Question 31

Huck believed that he was doing the right thing by helping Jim.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 32

Huck was happy that Aunt Sally wanted to adopt him.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 33

The King & the Duke would probably never run cons again..

Accepted Answer

True

Question 34

Tom, Huck, and Jim were actually going into the territories.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 35

Tom  & Huck were actually going into the territories.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 36

Huck was actually going into the territories.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 37

Huck could get his money from Judge Thatcher whenever he wanted.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 38

At the end, Huck is much more mature than Tom.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 39

The adventures begin in Missouri and end in Arkansas.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 40

The adventures begin in Missouri and end in Louisiana.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 41

Jim will be able to work and buy his family now.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 42

Jim kept Pap's death from Huck just to spare Huck's feelings.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 43

Jim didn't tell Huck about Pap's death because Jim needed Huck to help him.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 44

Miss Watson set Jim free because she didn't need him anymore.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 45

Jim would only be free in St. Petersburg, but nowhere else.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 46

The Grangerford/Shepherdson feud was patterned after the Montague/ Capulet feud.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 47

Jim turns out to be more of a father to Huck than Huck's own Pap ever was.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 48

The novel was set after the American Civil War.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 49

Mark Twain's family owned slaves, but his mother was not in favor of slavery.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 50

The novel was set in 1845 before the American Civil War.

Accepted Answer

True

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