Huck Finn Questions

What is the source of the fortune that Judge Thatcher is keeping in trust for Huck?
(A) Buried treasure
(B) Huck’s father’s life insurance policy
(C) A robber’s stash that Huck and Tom found in a cave
(D) An inheritance from Huck’s mother

At the end of the novel, which character informs the others that Jim is actually a free man?
(A) Aunt Polly
(B) Tom
(C) Huck
(D) Sid

Which of the following symbolizes bad luck to Huck and Jim?
(A) A shed snakeskin
(B) Jim’s hairy chest
(C) Rain
(D) The wrecked steamboat

Which Wilks sister is initially suspicious of Huck?
(A) Mary Jane
(B) Susan
(C) Joanna
(D) Sophia

How does Huck know that Pap has returned to St. Petersburg?
(A) Tom tells him
(B) Pap visits Judge Thatcher to demand Huck’s money
(C) The authorities determine that the corpse found in the river is not Pap
(D) He sees Pap’s boot print in the snow

What is the name of the wrecked steamboat on which Huck and Jim encounter the robbers?
(A) The Royal Nonesuch
(B) The Walter Scott
(C) The Mississippi Queen
(D) The New Orleans

What is Jim’s initial destination when he and Huck start downriver?
(A) New Orleans
(B) An Arkansas plantation
(C) St. Louis
(D) The Ohio River

Where does Huck hide the Wilks family gold?
(A) In Peter Wilks’s coffin
(B) In the basement
(C) In a mattress
(D) In an old cabin in the woods

Down which river do Huck and Jim travel?
(A) The Missouri
(B) The Mississippi
(C) The Ohio
(D) The Chattahoochee

What event sets off the final gunfight between the Shepherdsons and the Grangerfords?
(A) The death of Harney Shepherdson
(B) The theft of the Grangerfords’ cattle
(C) Sophia Grangerford’s elopement with a Shepherdson
(D) An insult to Colonel Grangerford

How do Huck and Jim initially acquire the raft?
(A) They steal it.
(B) They build it.
(C) They buy it from a slave trader.
(D) They find it during a flood.

What does the “witch pie” that Huck and Tom bake for Jim contain?
(A) A rope ladder
(B) A pen made from a brass candlestick
(C) An old shirt and a spoon
(D) A dead snake

How do the duke and the dauphin dress Jim so that he can stay on the raft without being tied up?
(A) As a young girl
(B) As a sick Arab
(C) As a camel
(D) As a Shakespearean actor

What is the name of the town where Huck, Jim, and Tom live at the novel’s opening?
(A) Cairo
(B) St. Louis
(C) Pikesville
(D) St. Petersburg

Why does Jim run away from Miss Watson’s?
(A) She treats him poorly.
(B) She is planning to sell him, which would separate him from his family.
(C) He wants to see relatives in New Orleans.
(D) He wants to help Huck escape his father.