| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is celebrated in part for its representation of what perspective? | Southern |
| In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, when Huck says his father used to whale him, he means he used to _____him. | hit |
| Why does Huck give up on a prayer? | some of his prayers have not been answered |
| A type of narrative that uses the words I and me and features one character relating events from his own perspective is called | first-person |
| Realism arose as a reaction to ________. | romanticism |
| Which of these words is a synonym for palavering? | babbling |
| ________is the vocabulary, phonology, and grammar of a particular region or social class. | dialect |
| What is unusual about the house Jim and Huck find? | it is floating |
| How might Jim’s dialect affect the reader’s interpretation of the character? | it projects Jim’s character as a stereotype |
| Which vocabulary word describes s small sand bar or islet within a river that contains brush or trees? | tow-head |
| Where is Cairo? | it is where the Ohio meets the Mississippi River |
| When an author exaggerates personality defects to a ludicrous extreme, it is called | caricature |
| Huck’s description of the “drunk” horsemen at the circus is an example of what kind of irony? | dramatic |
| Why does Jim feel guilty? | he hit his deaf daughter for not listening to him |
| In the illustration called “Harmless,” Jim is made to look | ridiculous |
| At first, Huck feels ______ about writing to Jim’s owner. | good |
| What is another word for ship’s small boat? | yawl |
| When the kind enters the town, he pretends to be | Harvey Wilks, from England |
| Which of the following quotes contains a metaphor? | “Look at it, gentlemen and ladies all; take a-hold of it; shake it. There’s a hand that was the hand of a hog; but it ain’t so no more; it’s the hand of a man that’s started in on a new life, and’ll die before he’ll go back.” |
Huck Finn Quickchecks
June 3, 2020