The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Study Guide

1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published in:

• 1700
• 1774
• 1800
• 1884

2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn can best be described as:

• a humor novel
• an epic
• a social commentary
• an abolitionist novel

3. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer each received ________ dollars when they found money that the robbers had hidden in the cave:

• 3,000 dollars
• 6,000 dollars
• 12,000 dollars
• no money

4. Huck's Pap returns because he:

• misses his son
• wants Huck's money
• wants revenge on Judge Thatcher
• all of the above

5. When Jim first sees Huck Finn on the island, he thinks Huck:

• is trying to bewitch him
• has come to arrest him
• has run away from home
• is a ghost

6. Jim runs away from Miss Watson because:

• she is planning to sell him to a slave trader who will take him to New Orleans
• he wants to spend time with Huck
• he wants to be re-united with his family
• he is tired of being a slave

7. During their travels down the river, Huck talks to Jim about all of the following except:

• royalty
• King Solomon
• women
• money

8. Tom Sawyer has the other boys form a band of:

• beggars
• robbers
• pirates
• seducers

9. Huck escapes to Jackson Island and discovers that:

• Miss Watson is there
• Pa is there
• it is deserted
• Jim is there

10. Mark Twain's approach to the issue of racism in Huckleberry Finn is that:

• he sarcastically denounces it.
• he supports it.
• he attacks it directly.
• he does not deal with the issue of racism in Huckleberry Finn.