Objective test (100 total points)
Questions types
Matching - Characters and events (15)
Figurative language in H.F. (15)
Either - or character questions (20)
Huck or Tom?
Widow or Miss Watson?
Raft or shore?
True/False plot questions (8)
Multiple choice plot, character, book background and Twain biography (32)
Characters and Sam
Samuel Clemens = Mark Twain - Missippi River steamboat pilot, reporter, author. Published Huck Finn in 1884.
Huck - Son of town drunk. Admires Tom Sawyer. Practical, though. If Tom's adventures don't make sense, he's not interested in them, but he often goes along with Tom anyway.
Tom - Imaginative. Reads spy novels and tales like Don Quixote and Tales of the Arabian Knights.
Jim - Superstitious slave. Loving. Caring. One of the few men who can be a role model for Huck.
Po' Li'l Liz'beth - Jim's daughter who was deaf after scarlet fever.
Po' Li'l Johnny - Jim's son (minor character)
Pap - town drunk who tries to get Huck's $6,000.
Miss Watson - Slim. Strict. Believes in a strict God (Hellfire and Brimstone). Owner of Jim.
Widow Douglas - Kinder than Miss Watson. Believes in kind God. Takes snuff.
Judge Thatcher - Buys Huck's $6,000 for $1 to keep it from Pap Finn.
King and Duke - Scoundrels that come aboard Huck and Jim's raft.
Grangerfords
Emmaline - Writes bad poetry.
Sophie - In love with Harney Grangerford.
Buck - Befriends Huck. Dies in feud.
Shepardsons
Harney - Love interest of Sophie Grangerford.
Boggs - Drunk who threatens Col. Sherburn and gets shot in the street.
Sherburn - Killer of Boggs. Talks down the mob that wants to kill him.
Buck Harkness - Leader of the mob that's after Sherburn.
Figurative language terms
Personification
alliteration
onomotopoeia
rhyme
assonance
metaphor
simile
idiom
analogy
hyperbole
symbol
malapropism
Vocabluary and allusions
abolitionist
temperance
smouch
apathetic
Moses and the Bullrushers
Hannibal-St.Petersburg
superstitions
spider
hairy breast
segregation