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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Flashcards

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Who is the narrator and where does he find himself living?

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The narrator is Huck Finn, he find himself in Missouri and lives with widow Douglass and Miss Watson

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Who decides to form a gang?

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Tom Sawyer forms the gang because they wanted adventure

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Who did Tom play a prank on the night of the first meeting?

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Tom played a prank on Jim

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What kind of prank was it?

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Tom puts Jim’s hat on a tree that he’s sleeping under. Jim thinks that it is a witch

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What are 3 details the secret oath included?

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  1. Don’t lie
  2. Sign an oath in blood
  3. If someone breaks oath family dies
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Explain what type of gifts should Huck is praying for

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He’s praying for a hook and a line that will make him a better person

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What does Huck decide to do with his fortune?

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Huck gives it to judge thatcher because he thinks his dad might for $1. Thatcher invests it for him

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Describe Pap Finn.

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Pap is Hucks dad, he is a drunkard. He is a mess, very abusive, everyone thinks he’s dead

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Why did Pap return to town

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He doesn’t like the fact that his learning and he wants his money

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Who did Pap believe was chasing him around the cabin?

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He thinks that the angel of death is chasing him around

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Explain how Huck escapes from Pap?

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He saws his way out and fakes his death by using pig blood and stages a robbery killing

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Where does Huck camp out at?

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He camps out at Jackson island

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Name 3 people who searched for Huck

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Pap, judge thatcher and Tom Sawyer

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How did they conduct the search for Huck?

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They searched for Huck on a ferry

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What methods did the search party use to find Huck?

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They shoot canon balls from ferry and they fill bread with mercury

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Who does Huck discover is hiding out as well?

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He discovers Jim is hiding out too

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Why is this person hiding out?

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He is hiding out because he doesn’t want to get sold or separated from his family

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How big is the island?

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3 miles long 1/4 mile wide

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What happened to the river?

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It was flooded after 3 days of rain

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How long does the river stay like that?

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10-11 days

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As a result of the flooding what does Huck find floating?

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He finds a house floating

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What actions does Huck take upon the house?

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Inside the house Huck finds a dead body and other supplies like cigars and girl clothing

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What trick does Huck play on Jim and was it successful?

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Huck puts a dead snake on Jim. But the dead snakes mate wraps around Jim and bites him

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What treatment does Jim prescribe?

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Huck tells Jim to eat the skin in the snakes head, get the rattles and make a bracelet with them and clean the wound with alcohol

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How does Huck intend to obtain more information on their disappearance?

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Huck wants to dress up as a girl

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In chapter 11, where does Huck say he’s from?

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Hookerville, Ohio

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What is the female and male aliases used by Huck Finn?

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Female alias is Sarah Mary Williams and male alias is George Peters

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What are the rewards for the suspects of Huck’s disappearance?

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For Pap $200 and for Jim $300

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In what 3 ways does Huck reveal that he is a boy?

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He threw the lead brick like a boy, he sewed like a boy, and he caught yarn like a boy

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Who did Huck say he was running away to and where did they live?

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He was running to his family in Goshem

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What 2 foods did Huck and Jim vow not to steal again?

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Crab apples and chickens

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During their investigation of the wrecked ferry, what do they discover?

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They find 3 robbers

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Why do the thieves return to the ferry?

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They want to sink the ferry

34
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Why does Huck approach a ferry night-watchman?

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Because he feels bad for the robbers

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What do they discover upon their return to the site? What conclusions do they come to?

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When they return back to the site they can’t find the ferry. They conclude that the robbers sunk with the ship

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What is Jim’s opinion on King Solomon? Why?

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Jim thinks Solomon is a moron because he thinks that family is important and Solomon tries to cut his child in half

37
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What was Huck and Jim’s destination? Explain.

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They are going to Cairo because it is one of the few cities that Jim can be free

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How does Jim react to Huck’s prank?

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Jim was sad because he actually thought Huck had left him

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What are Huck’s hesitations regarding Jim’s plans after they reach Cairo?

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Huck is facing a moral crisis because he is stealing the widow’s property

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How does Huck discourage the slave hunters from approaching the boat?

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He says that his family is on the boat and they have small pox

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To what do Huck and Jim attribute their inability to find Cairo?

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They missed Cairo because of a fog but they really think they missed it because of the snake skin

42
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Who is the Grangerford family feuding with? Why?

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They are feuding with the Shepardsons but no one really knows why

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Who in the family does Huck develop a fascination for? Why?

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He is fascinated with Miss Emeline because he loves her art and poetry

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What is ironic about the Grangerford’s religious life?

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They take guns to church because they don’t trust anybody

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Why is Hucks slave speaking to him in code?

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Because the slave knows where Jim is

46
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What event causes the family feud to be rekindled in full force?

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Harney Shepardson and Sophia Grangerford run off with each other because Huck was transferring their messages

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How do Huck and Jim meet the King and the Duke?

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They run into each other while they’re escaping from towns

48
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Does Huck believe the king and the Duke’s story?

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At first Huck believes it but later on he doesn’t believe him

49
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Give 2 examples of the cleverness of the duke and king

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The king made a toothpaste that takes the enamel off your teach and they pretend to be Shakespearean actors

50
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Why did people return to the show?

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Because they didn’t want to seem foolish and to protect their pride

51
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What’s the point of the incidents of the shooting of Boggs?

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Boggs was the town drunk. Boggs was shot and killed because he was making fun of colonel sheburn. Eventually the colonel got fed up and shot Boggs

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What do we hear about Jim’s daughter? Why?

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He thought his daughter was disrespecting him and turns out that she was deaf

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Where did the king and duke get their plan about being the Wilks brothers?

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They met their relative while on the river

54
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Why does Huck steal the money from the mattresses?

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He feels that the nieces should be left with money

55
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Why doesn’t Hucks conscience bother him when he lies so much?

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He always finds a way to justify it

56
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What things give away the king and the duke?

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They are supposed,to know about the tattoo of Peter’s initials and they had a poor knowledge of the geography in England

57
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Why is Huck upset when Jim is sold?

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Because he had an very close relationship to him

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Why is it important that Huck says, “All right, then, I’ll go to hell.”?

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He’s breaking laws by rescuing/stealing Jim so he’s going to hell regardless

59
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What was Huck’s plan for Jim’s rescue?

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Huck is going to find out who bought Jim and steal it from him

60
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Who purchased Jim?

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Silas Phelps

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Why does Huck assume Tom Sawyer’s identity?

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Because the Phelps were expecting Tom Sawyer

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What happens when Tom appears on the scene?

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At first he thinks that Huck is a ghost. Then he pretends to be Sid

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What’s the difference between Tom’s plan for freeing Jim and Huck’s?

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Tom makes things way more,complicated than they should be

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How does Huck change when Tom?

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Huck doesn’t really have a say in anything

65
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Why is Tom’s plan cruel?

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He wants to chop off Jim’s leg and he wants to wait a long time to save Jim. He is playing with Jim’s emotions.

66
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What do we learn about Tom in these chapters?

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He is very bossy and demanding

67
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How does Huck appear to be superior than Tom?

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Huck is the more mature out of the 2

68
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What else made the capturing to f Jim so complicated?

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Tom wrote a note saying that he was going to steal Jim

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What ends up happening to Jim?

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Jim ends up getting captured. But since aunt Sally dies, he is set free

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What happens to Tom in the middle of the stealing of Jim?

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He gets shot

71
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What was Mark Twains actual name?

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens

72
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When and where was twain born?

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Born in 1835 in Florida, Missouri

73
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True / False: Twain briefly served in confederate army

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True

74
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What was Twain’s wife’s name?

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Olivia Langdon

75
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What did Twain’s godfather provide him with?

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A sizable shareholding in a newspaper in buffalo and house the couple in a mansion

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True/False: in 1891 Twain declared bankruptcy

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True

77
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How many children did Twain have? How many outlived him?

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4 children. 1 outlived him (Ciara)

78
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When, how, and where did Twain die?

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He died at the age of 74 due to a heart disease. He died in Redding.

79
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How did the king and the duke get the money?

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They pose as the Wilks brothers

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