The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Quizzes

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Quiz 1

1 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published in:
1700

1884

1800

1774
2 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn can best be described as:
an epic

an abolitionist novel

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

no money

6,000 dollars

3,000 dollars
4 Huck's Pap returns because he:
misses his son

wants revenge on Judge Thatcher

wants Huck's money

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

has run away from home

is trying to bewitch him

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:
King Solomon

women

royalty

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

pirates

seducers

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

he supports it.

he sarcastically denounces it.

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

slavery

commerce

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

transportation

money and goods

food
13 Jim is all of the following except:
superstitious

hard-working

motherly

foolish
14 The narrator of the story is:
Huck

Tom

Jim

Pa
15 Huck assumes all of the following identities except:
George Peters

Tom Sawyer

Thomas Smith

Sarah Williams
16 Three main symbols are the:
river, money, raft

river, ferryboats, bread

river, names, money

river, witchcraft, raft
17 Jim is which of the following during the course of the novel?
a free man

Huck's friend

a runaway slave

all of the above
18 Greed is present in all of the following except:
Jim's financial investments.

The floating bread with quicksilver inside it.

Pa's return.

The selling of Jim back into slavery.
19 Huck pretends to be _______ when he is caught pretending to be a girl:
an escaped apprentice

a boy running away from his abusive father

an actor

an escaped convict
20 The Dauphin represents what historical character?
the son of the King of England

the son of the King of France

the son of the Duke

a famous actor
21 The central conflict of the novel is:
Huck Finn's internal struggle to come to terms with himself and society

escaping Pa

freeing Jim from slavery

getting rid of the Duke and the Dauphin
22 The Duke and the Dauphin are primarily:
actors

beggars

charletans

thieves
23 With whom does Huck start to fall in love in the novel?
Mary Jane Wilks

Miss Watson

Huck does not fall in love

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

The Grangerfords

The Shepherdsons

The Wilks
25 Which paradox is inherent in Huck Finn's character?
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.

he loves school but hates to learn.

The primary theme of the novel is the conflict between civilization and "natural life." Huck represents natural life through his freedom of spirit, uncivilized ways, and desire to escape from civilization. He was raised without any rules or...

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Huck says this because he has come to realize that Jim is far more than Miss Watson's slave.... he is Huck's friend, and he is a member of humanity. Huck doesn't care because he knows that his friendship with Jim is more important than the...

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Pison

I think it is supposed to mean poison.

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