Huck Finn Chapter Questions

Chapter 1-10

Who wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

At the beginning of the book, Huck lives with two women. What are their names?

To whom does Huck sell his fortune for one dollar?

How does Pap feel about Huck going to school?

Who does Pap think was the Angel of Death?

What valuable “thing” does Huck swim out to get, and then hide?

Why does Huck kill the pig?

Where is Huck headed?

Why does Huck scare Jim so much?

Why had Jim run away?

What does Huck and Jim find in the house floating down the river?

How does the snake come to be in Jim’s blanket?

Why does Huck dress up like a girl?




























Chapter 11-18

Part I

Identify the speakers, Authors reveal a great deal about characters by what they have them say. Identify the speakers of the following lines.

1. ________________ “You do a girl tolerable poor, but you might fool men, maybe.”

2. ________________ “Oh, my lordy, lordy! Raf Dey ain’t no raf’ no mo’; she don’ broke loose
en gone! —en here we is!”

3. ________________ “I f you think it ain’t dismal and lonesome out in the fog that way by
yourself in the night, you try it once-you’ll see.”

4. ________________ “. . . dog my cats ef it ain’t de powerfulest dream I ever see.”

5. ________________ “Well . . . a feud is this way: A man has a quarrel with another man,
and kills him; then that other man’s brother kills him; then the
cousins chip in—and by and by everybody’s killed off and there
ain’t no more feud.”

Part II

Answer the following questions in complete sentences.

6.What do Huck and Jim plan to do when they reach Cairo?

7. How does Huck keep the men in the skiff from checking out the raft?

8. How do Huck and Jim get separated at the end of Chapter 16?

9. How does Huck solve the problem of forgetting his name?

10. What does Miss Sophia do that really sets the feud off again?

11. What happens to Buck?



















Chapters 19-29

Write the name of the person described by the quote. (Use the person’s title if no name is given.)



1. __________________“One of these fellows was about seventy or upwards, and had a bald
head and very gray whiskers.”


2. __________________“The other fellow was about thirty, and dressed about as ornery.”



3. ____________________“You see before you, in blue jeans and misery, the wandrin’, exiled,
and trampled-on, and sufferin’ rightful king of France.


4. ____________________“If he chawed up all the men he’s been a-gywne to chaw up in the last
twenty year, he’d have a considerable reputation now.”


5. ____________________“Oh she was plumb deef and dumb . . . en I’d ben a-treat’n her so!”



6. ____________________“Sick Arab—but harmless when not of his head.”



7. ___________________“There warn’t no more popular man in town that what [he] was.”



Questions: Answer in complete sentences


1. What do the king and the duke do when they discover that the bag of gold is $4.14 short?


2. Have the rapscallion’s hoodwinked everybody?


3. Who are the king and the duke pretending to be?


4. Where does Huck hide the gold?


5. Huck tells Mary Jane that she had to get out of town. Why is it necessary for her to get out of town?


6. Why did the people dig up the corpse of Peter Wilkes ?


Chapters 30- The Last

1. “Tryin’ to give us the slip, was ye, you pup! Tired of our company, hey?”

2. “Oh, let up on this cussed nonsense: do you take me for a blame’ fool? …”

3. “You can’t pray a lie—I found that out.”

4. “It’s you, at last! ain’t it?”

5. “I hain’t ever done you no harm. You know that. So, then, what you want to come back and ha’nt me for?”—

6. “I’ll help you steal him!”—

7. “you impudent young rascal, to fool a body so—“

8. “Looky here, Huck, what fools we are to not think of it before! I bet I know where Jim is?”

9. “Didn’t I say I was going to steal the n-gg-r?”

10. “What do we want of a moat when we’re going to snake him out from under the cabin?”

11. “Aint them old crippled picks and things in there good enough to dig a n-gg-er out with?”

12. “Gimme a case-knife.”

13. “It’s most uncommon curious, I can’t understand it. I know perfectly well I took it off because—“

14. “Why, Aunt Sally, there ain’t but nine spoons yet.”

15. “Why, Mars Tom, I hain’t got no coat o’ arms; I hain’t got nuffin but dish yer ole shirt, en you knows
I got to keep de journal on dat.”

16. “jis’ ‘s soon have tobacker in his coffee”

17. “Beware. Trouble is brewing. Keep a sharp lookout. Unknown Friend”

18. “For the land’s sake, what is the matter with child? He’s got the brain-fever as shore as you’re born.
And they’re oozing out!”

19. “ Now, old Jim, you’re a free man again, and I bet you won’t ever be a slave no more.

20. “—I doan’ budge a step out’n dis place’dout a doctot; not if it’s forty year!”

21. “ ‘I hain’t been nowheres,’ I says, ‘on’y just huning for a runaway n-gg-r—me and Sid.’ “

22. “Oh, he’s dead, he’s dead, I know he’s dead!”

23. “ Don’t be no rougher on him than your obleeged to, because he ain’t a bad n-gg-r.”

24. “Dah, now Huck, what I tell you? — what I tell you up dah on Jackson Islan’? I tole you I got
a breas’ en what’s de sign un it….”