Huck+Finn+Questions

Chapters 1 - 5 Chapters 6 - 9 Chapters 10 - 13 Chapters 14 - 16 Chapters 17 - 19 Chapters 20 - 24 Chapters 25 - 28 Chapters 29 - 31 Chapters 32 - 35 Chapters 37 - 39 Chapters 40 - 43
 * Huck Finn Questions **
 * 1) How is Huck's father first introduced?
 * 2) Does Huck fear going to hell? Why or why not?
 * 3) Does Huck have more faith in superstition or religion? Why?
 * 4) In what way is Tom different than Huck?
 * 5) What do the "robbers" think ransoming is and what are some objections to it?
 * 6) How does Miss Watson confuse Huck about prayers?
 * 7) What difference do you notice between Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas?
 * 8) What does Huck mean at the end of chapter 3, "It had all the marks of a Sunday school"?
 * 9) What is a hairball? What does this tell us about slave culture?
 * 10) What happens as Huck just gets used to being civilized?
 * 11) Why does Huck go to see Judge Thatcher? How do Judge Thatcher and the Widow try to help Huck?
 * 1) Where does Pap take Huck and what is it like?
 * 2) Explain Pap's behavior.
 * 3) How does Twain use irony to show Pap's ignorance of government?
 * 4) How does Huck escape the cabin? What does this tell the reader about Huck?
 * 5) Who appears on Jackson Island?
 * 6) What is Huck doing when he finds out that someone else is on the island?
 * 7) Why did Jim run away?
 * 8) Why does Jim say, "I's rich now"? In what ways are people rich?
 * 9) Where do Huck and Jim get so many supplies?
 * 10) Who is the person in the cabin? Why is this significant?
 * 1) How does superstition seem as logical as religion in Huck's mind?
 * 2) Why does Huck ignore Jim's warning? Why is this significant?
 * 3) Why does Huck go ashore? What disguise is he wearing?
 * 4) How does Judith Loftus figure out Huck's disguise?
 * 5) Why is there a reward for the return of Jim? For the return of Huck? (There may be different reasons for this.)
 * 6) How does Huck help Jim escape the man-hunt?
 * 7) Why doesn't Huck turn Jim in?
 * 8) What was life like on the raft?
 * 9) For what purpose does Huck go to the ferry boat watchman?
 * 10) What happens on the steamboat? Be specific.
 * 11) Why are states mentioned in connection to the boat?
 * 12) What do Jim and Huck do with the robbers' boat? Why is this important?
 * 1) Specifically, what does Jim object to about King Solomon? How does this perpetuate stereotypes?
 * 2) Who shows more logic and wisdom in this argument, Jim or Huck? Explain why.
 * 3) What are Huck's and Jim's motivation for going to Cairo?
 * 4) How does the river's tranquility suddenly change?
 * 5) How does the theme of loneliness and isolation come out here?
 * 6) How does Huck's practical joke on Jim humanize Huck? What was Twain's purpose in this passage?
 * 7) What is Huck's moral dilemma in chapter 16?
 * 8) How does Huck's quick thinking save Jim?
 * 9) How does Huck feel about misleading the bounty hunters?
 * 10) What is Huck's relationship with the river? Is this normal behavior for someone his age?
 * 1) Whose home does Huck come to?
 * 2) Who is George Jackson?
 * 3) Review p. 9
 * 4) Was their house in fact, "mighty nice" or in bad taste?
 * 5) How was Miss Emmeline different from the others?
 * 6) At what point does Huck become horrified by the feud?
 * 7) Why does Huck think the fight was his fault?
 * 8) Where was Jim while Huck was at the Grangerfords? How does Huck discover him?
 * 9) How does Huck feel about getting on the raft again? What are some of the attractions of raft life?
 * 10) How does the description of the river and the raft life differ from that just before and after Cairo?
 * 11) How does Huck meet the Duke and the Dauphin? How does he know the truth about them? 1
 * 12) Why does Huck go along with the two frauds who come aboard the raft?
 * 1) How does Jim show concern for Huck?
 * 2) How does Twain satirize religious gullibility in the town of Pokeville?
 * 3) How do Huck and company travel without hiding Jim?
 * 4) What comment about human nature does Twain make in the "loafers" account in chapter 21?
 * 5) What ideas does Twain get across in the Boggs-Sherburn incident?
 * 6) Why does Huck decide the circus isn't funny?
 * 7) How do the Kind and Duke increase attendance at their second performance?
 * 8) What is Twain's purpose for including Jim's story of his 'Lizbeth?
 * 9) What new, potential scheme do the King and Duke learn about?
 * 1) Who do the King and Duke claim to be?
 * 2) Why do they give all six thousand dollars to Wilks girl?
 * 3) What was it about the King that made Dr. Robinson suspect he was a fraud?
 * 4) Where does Huck hide the inheritance money?
 * 5) What makes the Wilks girls saddest about having their property sold?
 * 6) Why does Huck want Mary Jane to leave the house after he tells her the truth?
 * 7) Why doesn't Huck just blow the whistle on the frauds?
 * 8) About whom does Huck say, "She had more sand in her than any girl I ever seen; in my opinion she was just full of sand"? What does Huck mean by this?
 * 9) Where does Huck tell Joanna and Susan that Mary Jane has gone?
 * 10) How is Huck's increasing maturity shown in these chapters?
 * 1) How does Huck escape the Wilks investigation?
 * 2) What do the Duke and King get in a fight about?
 * 3) How does Huck feel about having them back on the raft?
 * 4) Why does Huck think he ought to let Miss Watson know about Jim?
 * 5) Why does he change his mind?
 * 1) What satire on values does Twain make in Huck's first conversation with Aunt Sally?
 * 2) Who do the Phelpses mistake Huck for?
 * 3) Why does Tom drop in Huck's estimation?
 * 4) Why do Huck and Tom sneak out of the Phelps' and go to town? What is Huck's opinion of what he sees?
 * 5) How does Huck feel about his conscience?
 * 6) What is the value, according to Huck, of Tom's plan for stealing Jim?
 * 7) How do Tom and Huck fool the "nigger" who is watching Jim?
 * 8) What are the major differences between Huck and Tom?
 * 9) Why does Huck go along with Tom's wild ideas?
 * 1) How do Huck and Tom keep Aunt Sally from knowing what's missing?
 * 2) How does Tom show a lack of sensitivity to peoples' feelings?
 * 3) What's worse to Tom and Huck than the licking they get for letting loose the rats and snakes?
 * 4) Why do Tom and Huck write the "nonamous" letters to Aunt Sally?
 * 5)  Chapters 40 - 43
 * 6) What does Huck mean when he says of Jim, "I knowed he was white inside. . ."?
 * 7) How does Twain help us feel sympathetic toward Aunt Sally?
 * 8) In what way do the people show gratitude to Jim at first?
 * 9) How does Jim get rich again?
 * 1)  What does Huck mean when he says of Jim, "I knowed he was white inside. . ."?
 * 2)  How does Twain help us feel sympathetic toward Aunt Sally?
 * 3)  In what way do the people show gratitude to Jim at first?
 * 4) How does Jim get rich again?