huck finn characters

Question 1

Huck’s abusive, alcoholic, broke father who returns early in the book to claim custody over him. When Huck can no longer take his father’s abuse, he runs away and begins his journey down the river with Jim.

Answer 1

Pap

Question 2

The British brother of Peter Wilks whom the Duke impersonates until the real William Wilks arrives.

Answer 2

William Wilks

Question 3

The second eldest daughter of the deceased George Wilks.

Answer 3

Susan Wilks

Question 4

The dead man whose brother the King impersonates.

Answer 4

Peter Wilks

Question 5

The eldest daughter of the deceased George Wilks, a red-headed girl whom Huck starts to fall in love with. She becomes convinced that the King is her real uncle and not a fraud until Huck tells her the truth.

Answer 5

Mary Jane Wilks

Question 6

The youngest daughter of the deceased George Wilks, she is distinguishable by her harelip.

Answer 6

Joanna Wilks

Question 7

The British brother of Peter Wilks whom the King impersonates until the real Harvey Wilks arrives.

Answer 7

Harvey Wilks

Question 8

The sister of the Widow Douglas. She tries to teach Huck how to read and write properly. Jim is her slave. He runs away from her after hearing that she wanted to sell him to a trader from down south.

Answer 8

Miss Watson

Question 9

One of the robbers on the shipwrecked steamboat.

Answer 9

Jim Turner

Question 10

An eminent citizen in the town who is respected and well-liked. He fights to protect Huck’s money when Pap returns to claim Huck and steal his money.

Answer 10

Judge Thatcher

Question 11

The young man who runs away with Miss Sophia Grangerford.

Answer 11

Harney Shepherdson

Question 12

Huck Finn’s best friend. Tom loves make believe games and sets up a band of robbers. Later he and Huck live together with Tom’s Aunt Sally and Huck pretends to be Tom while Tom pretends to be his younger brother Sid.

Answer 12

Tom Sawyer

Question 13

Tom Sawyer’s younger brother. Tom pretends to be Sid while he and Huck Finn are living with Sally Phelps.

Answer 13

Sid Sawyer

Question 14

A member of Tom’s robber band.

Answer 14

Ben Rogers

Question 15

The only man who recognizes that the King and Duke are frauds when they try to pretend to be British. He warns the town but they ignore him.

Answer 15

Doctor Robinson

Question 16

Tom’s aunt who shows up at the end to find out what tricks Tom has been playing on her kinfolk. She reveals the true identities of Tom and Huck to her sister and spoils their attempt to steal Jim out of slavery by explaining he is already free.

Answer 16

Aunt Polly

Question 17

Tom Sawyer’s uncle, and the farmer who purchases Jim from the King for forty dollars.

Answer 17

Silas Phelps

Question 18

Tom Sawyer’s aunt. She is married to Silas Phelps and initially mistakes Huck for Tom Sawyer.

Answer 18

Sally Phelps

Question 19

The woman whom Huck visits to gather news while pretending to be a girl. She tells him that she suspects Jim is hiding on Jackson’s Island. Huck barely has time to get back to Jim and get them both off the island.

Answer 19

Mrs. Judith Loftus

Question 20

The elder of the two con men with whom Huck is forced to travel. He plays the naked man in the Royal Nonesuch and is the man who sells Jim as a runaway slave. He is later tarred and feathered along with the Duke.

Answer 20

The King

Question 21

A runaway slave who accompanies Huck Finn down the Mississippi River.

Answer 21

Jim

Question 22

The false name Huck uses when he lives with the Grangerford’s.

Answer 22

George Jackson

Question 23

A member of Tom’s robber band

Answer 23

Joe Harper

Question 24

The man who starts rallying a mob to kill Colonel Sherburn after Sherburn shoots and kills Boggs.

Answer 24

Buck Harkness

Question 25

The eldest son of the Grangerford family.

Answer 25

Tom Grangerford

Question 26

The daughter of Col. Grangerford who runs off with Harney Shepherdson and rekindles the feud.

Answer 26

Miss Sophia Grangerford

Question 27

A daughter of the Grangerford’s. She passed away before Huck’s arrival, but used to create wonderful paintings and poetry.

Answer 27

Emmeline Grangerford

Question 28

The father of the Grangerford house and the man who invites Huck to live with the family. He is killed in the feud.

Answer 28

Col. Grangerford

Question 29

A daughter of Col. Grangerford.

Answer 29

Miss Charlotte Grangerford

Question 30

The youngest son of Col. Grangerford who becomes good friends with Huck but is later killed in the feud.

Answer 30

Buck Grangerford

Question 31

A son of Col. Grangerford.

Answer 31

Bob Grangerford

Question 32

The main character of the story. He runs away and travels down the Mississippi River on a raft with a runaway slave, Jim, as his companion.

Answer 32

Huck Finn

Question 33

The younger of the two con men and the man who invents the Royal Nonesuch. He is later tarred and feathered in Pikesville.

Answer 33

The Duke

Question 34

The widow who takes Huck into her home and tries to “civilize” him. It is her home that he leaves when Pap kidnaps him and takes him to the log cabin.

Answer 34

Widow Douglas

Question 35

A young man who reveals the entire story about the Wilks’s fortune to the King.

Answer 35

Tim Collins

Question 36

A young man who reveals the entire story about the Wilks’s fortune to the King.

Answer 36

Boggs

Question 37

The false name the King uses when addressing Tim Collins, the young man bound for Orleans who tells the King everything about the Wilks family.

Answer 37

Rev. Elexander Blodgett

Question 38

The lawyer who tries to ascertain the true heirs to the Wilks’s fortune.

Answer 38

Levi Bell

Question 39

Huck’s name when the King pretends to be the British brother of Peter Wilks.

Answer 39

Adolphus