Huck Finn Reading Check Quiz

Huck Finn Reading Check Quiz - Chapters XXXV– XXXIV

1. Why is Tom disappointed?
A) Huck said some harsh words to him B) Silas Phelps has taken so few precautions to guard Jim C) none of the above

2. Why must they saw Jim’s chain off instead of just lifting it off the bed’s framework?
A) the bed is bolted to the ground B) because that’s how it’s done in all the books
C) they don’t have a hammer

3. Tom rattles off a list of other things that are necessary in plotting an escape such as:
A) a rope ladder, a moat, and a shirt
B) a noose, a chain saw, and a wild pig
C) a siren, a toll bridge, and a hawk

4. Why is it ironic that, Tom chastises Huck for stealing a watermelon from the slaves’ garden and makes Huck give the slaves a dime as compensation?
Despite all the theft that the plan entails

5. Late that night, Tom and Huck, after much fruitless effort, give up digging with the knives and switch to _________ instead.
A) shovels B) spoons C) pick-axes

6.The next day, they gather:
A) spools, rope and candlesticks B) candlesticks, spoons, and tin plates C) their wits

7) What does Tom say that Jim do with the pie plate?
A) etch a declaration of his captivity on the tin plate using the other objects
B) throw it out the window for the world to read C) serve them dinner on it

8. That night, the boys dig their way to Jim, who is delighted to see them. What does he tell them about Sally and Silas?
A) They have been there to visit. B) They have been there to pray C) They are trying to spoil the plan. D) Both A and B

9. Why does Tom convince Jim’s keeper, Nat, who believes witches are haunting him, that the only cure is to bake a “witch pie” and give it to Jim?
A) Tom plans to eat the pie himself. B) Tom plans to bake a rope ladder into the pie. C) a pie is always a good idea.

10. Aunt Sally notices the missing shirt, candles, sheets, and other articles Huck and Tom steal for their plan, and she
A) takes out her anger at the disappearances on seemingly everyone except the boys
B) believes that perhaps rats have stolen some of the items C) loses track of how many she has D) all of the above

11. Tom insists that Jim scratch an inscription bearing his coat of arms on the wall of the shed because
A) That’s the way they do it in the books B) For posterity C) none of the above

12. The boys try to steal a millstone. Why does it not work?
A) It proves too heavy for them B) They almost get caught and drop it. C) none of the above

13. Tom tries to get Jim
A) to take a rattlesnake or rat into the shack B) to grow a flower to water with his tears C) both

14. Jim protests against the unnecessary amount of trouble Tom wants to create, but Tom replies that his ideas:
A) are necessary to fulfilling their plans B) present opportunities for greatness
C) none



15. What happens when Huck and Tom capture rats and snakes to put in the shed with the captive Jim?
A) They can’t catch the snakes; they are too fast. B) Jim get s bitten by a rat.
C) They accidentally infest the Phelps house.

16. After Uncle Silas doesn’t hear back from the plantation from which the leaflet said Jim ran away, he plans to
A) advertise Jim as a captured runaway B) send word to the New Orleans and St. Louis newspapers C) Both

17. Tom, partly to thwart Silas and partly because the books he has read say to do so, puts the last part of his plan into action. What is this plan?
A) writing letters from an “unknown friend”
B) writing a letter from a member of a band of desperate gangsters
C) writing a letter that offers information to help thwart the theft of Jim
D) all of the above

Analysis: Chapters XXXVI–XXXIX
18. The following instances from these chapters show that the boys are
Tom once again gets caught up in his romantic ideas of valiantly rescuing Jim, which, though humorous, are frustrating when we see how long they delay Jim’s escape.
Tom gets so enmeshed in his imagination that he and Huck almost forget why they are going to so much trouble.
Huck, for his part, once again assumes to the same follower status in relation to Tom that he held at the beginning of the novel.
Normally the voice of reason and conscience in his dealings with Tom, Huck seems to have totally forgotten his principles and his friendship with Jim.
Both Tom and Huck get so enthralled in their game that they seem to forget that Jim is a human being.
To the boys, Jim becomes almost an object or a prop, to the extent that they even ask him in all seriousness to share his quarters with snakes and rats. Imprisoned in the shed, Jim is just as captive and powerless as he was before he originally escaped.

A) reverting to their roles are the beginning of the book
B) not serious about helping Jim
C) none of the above

19. The boys’ thoughtlessness and callousness contrast with the behavior of
A) The duke and the dauphine
B) Aunt Sally and Uncle Silas, who frequently visit and pray with Jim
C) none

20. Sally and Silas plan to return Jim to a life of ____________, while the boys, despite their toying with Jim, are nevertheless trying to _________.
A) fame and fortune/rule him
B) imprisonment and cruelty /free him
C) both