The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Quizzes

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Quiz 1

1 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published in:
1774

1884

1700

1800
2 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn can best be described as:
an abolitionist novel

an epic

a social commentary

a humor novel
3 Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer each received ________ dollars when they found money that the robbers had hidden in the cave:
12,000 dollars

6,000 dollars

no money

3,000 dollars
4 Huck's Pap returns because he:
wants Huck's money

misses his son

wants revenge on Judge Thatcher

all of the above
5 When Jim first sees Huck Finn on the island, he thinks Huck:
has come to arrest him

is trying to bewitch him

has run away from home

is a ghost
6 Jim runs away from Miss Watson because:
he wants to spend time with Huck

he is tired of being a slave

he wants to be re-united with his family

she is planning to sell him to a slave trader who will take him to New Orleans
7 During their travels down the river, Huck talks to Jim about all of the following except:
women

royalty

money

King Solomon
8 Tom Sawyer has the other boys form a band of:
seducers

pirates

beggars

robbers
9 Huck escapes to Jackson Island and discovers that:
it is deserted

Miss Watson is there

Jim is there

Pa is there
10 Mark Twain's approach to the issue of racism in Huckleberry Finn is that:
he supports it.

he does not deal with the issue of racism in Huckleberry Finn.

he sarcastically denounces it.

he attacks it directly.
11 The river best serves as a symbol of which of the following?
slavery

commerce

freedom

equality
12 The river provides all of the following except:
a permanent home

money and goods

transportation

food
13 Jim is all of the following except:
motherly

superstitious

hard-working

foolish
14 The narrator of the story is:
Tom

Pa

Huck

Jim
15 Huck assumes all of the following identities except:
Thomas Smith

Tom Sawyer

Sarah Williams

George Peters
16 Three main symbols are the:
river, ferryboats, bread

river, money, raft

river, witchcraft, raft

river, names, money
17 Jim is which of the following during the course of the novel?
Huck's friend

a free man

a runaway slave

all of the above
18 Greed is present in all of the following except:
Pa's return.

Jim's financial investments.

The selling of Jim back into slavery.

The floating bread with quicksilver inside it.
19 Huck pretends to be _______ when he is caught pretending to be a girl:
an escaped convict

a boy running away from his abusive father

an actor

an escaped apprentice
20 The Dauphin represents what historical character?
a famous actor

the son of the King of France

the son of the King of England

the son of the Duke
21 The central conflict of the novel is:
freeing Jim from slavery

getting rid of the Duke and the Dauphin

Huck Finn's internal struggle to come to terms with himself and society

escaping Pa
22 The Duke and the Dauphin are primarily:
beggars

actors

thieves

charletans
23 With whom does Huck start to fall in love in the novel?
Huck does not fall in love

Miss Watson

Mary Jane Wilks

Sarah Williams
24 From which family do the Duke and the Dauphin try to steal the inheritance?
The Shepherdsons

The Grangerfords

The Wilks

The Phelps
25 Which paradox is inherent in Huck Finn's character?
he loves school but hates to learn.

he fully supports slavery but wants to free Jim.

he has a realistic approach to life but is superstitious.

he hates money but wants to be rich.

When Huck pulls the men out of the river what has happened to them?

The two men are humbugs and frauds who were running away from townspeople who meant to tar and feather them. One man is about seventy and balding (the King), and the other is in his thirties (the Duke). The younger man specializes in printing and...

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What concession to reality does Tom make in his plan to dig out Jim?

The next night, Tom and Huck sneak out and start digging with their case knives. They tire soon and their hands quickly develop blisters, but it seems they haven't accomplished anything. Tom finally sighs and agrees to use a pick and shovel, but...

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Huckleberry Finn

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