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Characters – 10 Points

QUESTION:

•Who is the narrator of the story?

ANSWER:

• Huck Finn

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Characters – 20 Points

QUESTION:

•Who are the con men that go town to town trying to make money with a variety of tricks?

ANSWER:

• The King and the Duke

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Characters – 30 Points

QUESTION:

• Who teaches Huck about religion, prayer, the good place, and the bad place? ANSWER:

• Widow Douglas

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Characters – 40 Points

QUESTION:• Who befriends Huck but is shot due to a feud?

ANSWER:

•Buck Grangerford

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Characters – 50 Points

QUESTION:

•Who wants to adopt Huck at the end of the novel?

ANSWER:

•Sally Phelps (Tom’s Aunt Sally)

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Episodes – 10 Points

QUESTION:

•“Yes—right smart chance of funerals. But they don’t always kill. Pa’s got a few buck-shot in him; but he don’t mind it ‘cuz he don’t weigh much anyway. Bob’s been carved up some with a bowie, and Tom’s been hurt once or twice.”

ANSWER:

•Shepherdsons and Grangerfords

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Episodes – 20 Points

QUESTION:

•The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn’t stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable. So I went back.

ANSWER:

•Huck in Society – beginning sequence

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Episodes – 30 Points

QUESTION:

•Tom told me what his plan was, and I see in a minute it was worth fifteen of mine for style, and would make Jim just as free a man as mine would, and maybe get us all killed besides. So I was satisfied, and said we would waltz in on it.

ANSWER:

•Tom’s Escape Plan– the Evasion Sequence

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Episodes – 40 Points

QUESTION:

•“Do I know you? I know you clear through I was born and raised in the South, and I’ve lived in the North; so I know the average all around. The average man’s a coward.” ANSWER:

•Colonel Sherburn (and Boggs and the mob)

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Episodes – 50 Points

QUESTION:

•What episodes marks the climax or turning point of the novel?

ANSWER:

•Huck’s Big Moment – when he tears up the letter to Miss Watson

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Themes – 10 Points

QUESTION:

•What is a theme!??!?!?!!?!?!?!?!ANSWER:

•The message an author presents regarding a central idea.

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Themes – 20 Points

QUESTION:

•What might be a theme statement for the central idea of adventure?

ANSWER:

•Up to Ms. K

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Themes – 30 Points

QUESTION:

•What might be a theme statement for the central idea of human nature?

ANSWER:

•Up to Ms. K

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Themes – 40 Points

QUESTION:

•What might be a theme statement for the central idea of race relations?

ANSWER:

•Up to Ms. K

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Themes – 50 Points

QUESTION:

•How does the episodic plot structure impact theme development?

ANSWER:

•Different episodes develop different themes in conjunction with one another so that they can build upon one another throughout the novel

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Plot – 10 Points

QUESTION:

•What is the geographical setting of HF?

ANSWER:

•American South along the Mississippi River

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Plot – 20 Points

QUESTION:

•What is the time period Huck Finn is set it?

ANSWER:

•~1840 (pre-Civil War)

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Plot – 30 Points

QUESTION:

•What is the name of the ship that Huck and Jim find the three robbers on?

ANSWER:

•Walter Scott

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Plot – 40 Points

QUESTION:

•Why does the family feud between the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons suddenly escalate?

ANSWER:

•Suzzanna Grangerford runs away to elope with Harney Shepherdson

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Plot – 50 Points

QUESTION:

•What does Huck plan on doing at the end of the novel? Why?

ANSWER:

•Heading out for “the Territory” because he’s had enough of society

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Author’s Craft – 10 Points

QUESTION:

•Keeping in mind the context of when it was written, what was Mark Twain’s PURPOSE for writing HF?

ANSWER:

•To provide a SOCIAL COMMENTARY

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Author’s Craft – 20 Points

QUESTION:

•WHAT is the point of view Twain uses to tell the story and WHY?

ANSWER:

•1st person and because it allows him to comment on society as it actually is

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Author’s Craft – 30 Points

QUESTION:

• What is one reason why Twain might use an episodic plot structure?

ANSWER:• To focus on different aspects/flaws of society; to contrast being in society with being out of society; to let themes interact and build upon one another; to allow the text to potentially be serialized

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Author’s Craft – 40 Points

QUESTION:

•How do setting and p.o.v. impact word choice? ANSWER:

•Huck is uneducated and cannot read and write very well. •Because they are in the South before the Civil War, several different dialects (including the slave dialect) are presented.

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Author’s Craft – 50 Points

QUESTION:

• What is the tone of HF?

ANSWER:

• Satirical – uses humor, irony, exaggeration to expose societal faults