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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Study Guide

Chapters 1-4 1. What does Twain accomplish by using Huck as narrator? 2. What is the significance of the chapter title, “I Discover Moses and the Bulrushes”? 3. What is significant in the encounter with the spider? 4. What contrast between Huck and Tom is established? 5. What is significant in Jim’s story of the witches? 6. What two aspects of religion are presented? 7. What ironic use of superstition is presented?

Chapters 5-7 1. What question does Pap’s attitude toward Huck evoke? 2. What mixed emotions does Huck feel about life with his father? 3. What is the irony in Pap’s fury about the educated black? 4. What is the importance of Huck preparing his own death?

Chapters 8-11 1. What is the importance of the chapter title, “I Spare Miss Watson’s Jim”? 2. Why does Huck, enjoying the bread that ironically has been sent to find him, decide that perhaps there is something in religion after all? 3. What is implied in Jim’s belief that Huck is a ghost? 4. Why does Huck return to the town? 5. What is significant in the visit to Mrs. Loftus?

Chapters 12-16 1. What is the irony of the “Walter Scott”? 2. What is Jim’s attitude toward Solomon? 3. What is revealed in the conversation about the Frenchmen? 4. What is the significance of Jim’s lecture to Huck? 5. What new knowledge of human nature has Huck gained? 6. How does Huck battle with his conscience? 7. What is the purpose of Huck’s “tall Tale”? 8. What is the irony of Huck’s statement, “I won’t let no runaway niggers get by me if I can help it”? Chapters 17-20 1. Why does Huck take a new name? 2. Why does Twain describe with such detail the physical setting of the Grangerford home? 3. Chapter 18 begins with the comment, “Colonel Grangerford was a gentleman, you see.” What does Twain wish the reader to see? 4. What is the irony of the sermon? 5. Why does Huck say that there’s no home like a raft? 6. What is the significance of the many errors and inconsistencies in the claims of the King and the Duke?

Chapters 21-23 1. Why is the town at the beginning of Chapter 21 described so carefully? 2. How is Col. Sherburn described and why? 3. How do the townspeople react to the killing? 4. Why does Twain call it a lynching bee? 5. What is Twain’s purpose in inserting Sherburn’s address? 6. What aspects of human nature emerge from the Royal Nonesuch performance? 7. What further aspects of Jim’s character emerge in Chapter 23?

Chapters 24-29 1. What contrast emerges immediately? 2. Why do the girls make Huck feel so ashamed? 3. Why does Huck refuse to expose the frauds at once? 4. What disappointment does Huck face at the end of Chapter 29 and why?

Chapters 30-33 1. What is the significance of the chapter title, “You Can’t Pray a Lie”? 2. What is the significance of the title, “I Have a New Name”? 3. What is Huck’s reaction to the punishment of the King and Duke?

Chapters 34-39 1. Why does Huck allow Tom to lead in the escape plot? 2. What is revealed about the nature of each of the boys by his own plot for Jim’s escape? 3. What is Twain’s purpose in including Tom’s plans?

Chapters 40-43 1. What assessment of Jim does Huck make? 2. What is the irony of the doctor’s comment about Jim? 3. What is significant in Tom’s revelation of Jim’s freedom? 4. What does Jim’s revelation of Pap’s death mean?