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 abolitionist novel

a social commentary

a humor novel

an epic
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

wants revenge on Judge Thatcher

misses his son

all of the above
5 When Jim first sees Huck Finn on the island, he thinks Huck:
is trying to bewitch him

is a ghost

has come to arrest him

has run away from home
6 Jim runs away from Miss Watson because:
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

he is tired of being a slave

he wants to spend time with Huck
7 During their travels down the river, Huck talks to Jim about all of the following except:
King Solomon

money

women

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

beggars

pirates

seducers
9 Huck escapes to Jackson Island and discovers that:
Jim is there

it is deserted

Pa is there

Miss Watson is there
10 Mark Twain's approach to the issue of racism in Huckleberry Finn is that:
he attacks it directly.

he sarcastically denounces it.

he supports it.

he does not deal with the issue of racism in Huckleberry Finn.
11 The river best serves as a symbol of which of the following?
commerce

equality

slavery

freedom
12 The river provides all of the following except:
food

a permanent home

transportation

money and goods
13 Jim is all of the following except:
motherly

superstitious

hard-working

foolish
14 The narrator of the story is:
Jim

Huck

Pa

Tom
15 Huck assumes all of the following identities except:
Tom Sawyer

George Peters

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:
Pa's return.

The selling of Jim back into slavery.

The floating bread with quicksilver inside it.

Jim's financial investments.
19 Huck pretends to be _______ when he is caught pretending to be a girl:
an actor

an escaped apprentice

a boy running away from his abusive father

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

a famous actor

the son of the King of England

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

getting rid of the Duke and the Dauphin

escaping Pa

freeing Jim from slavery
22 The Duke and the Dauphin are primarily:
actors

beggars

thieves

charletans
23 With whom does Huck start to fall in love in the novel?
Sarah Williams

Mary Jane Wilks

Huck does not fall in love

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

The Wilks

The Phelps

The Grangerfords
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.

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...

Asked by Nic V #1337843

Answered by jill d #170087 on 2/28/2024 11:47 PM