Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Reading Quiz--Due Monday by 6:00 am

Answer the following questions on the content of chapters 7-15. Cut and paste into Microsoft Word and send your answers via email as an attachment.

1. For what did Huck dive in the water?
2. What did Huck drop "so as to look like it had been done by accident?"
3. What was Huck's destination once he was in the canoe?
4. Why was the ferry-boat firing the cannon?
5. What did Huck find that made his "heart jump up amongst his lungs?"
6. Why was Jim afraid of Huck?
7. Why didn't Huck believe that bees didn't sting idiots?
8. What did Jim say that the little birds said?
9. Were they right?
10. How did the man in the house die?
11. What did Huck and Jim find sewed up in the lining of an old blanket overcoat?
12. After Jim got bit by the rattlesnake, what did he have Huck do with the rattles?
13. Why does Huck think that Jim got bit by the snake?
14. What two objects did they find in the stomach of the catfish?
15. Who is Sarah Williams?
16. Where is Sarah from?
17. What three ways did Mrs. Loftus ascertain Sarah's true gender?
18. What two items did Huck and Jim decide to NOT "borrow?"
19. According to Huck Finn, how much do steamboat captains make per month?
20. What's the name of the wreck?
21. According to Huck Finn, how many wives did Solomon have?
22. How many boxes of cigars did Huck and Jim get from the ferry-boat?
23. How did Louis the XVI die?
24. Where did Huck lose the raft?

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