<p> Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Chapters 1-5 Study Guide</p><p>Chapter One: 1. What do we know about Huck from the way he talks?</p><p>2. Why does Mark Twain begin Huck Finn with a reference to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer? </p><p>3. How does Huck feel about being “sivilized”? </p><p>4. “Pretty soon I wanted to smoke and asked the widow to let me. But she wouldn’t. She said it was a mean practice and wasn’t clean. . . . And she took snuff too; of course that was all right, because she done it herself.” What is the object of Twain’s satire?</p><p>5. Why does Huck prefer the “bad” place to the “good” place?</p><p>6. What does Huck’s reaction to the burning of the spider show us about him?</p><p>Chapter Two</p><p>1. What trick does Tom play on Jim? How does Huck feel about it?</p><p>2. What difference between the two boys does this suggest?</p><p>3. How does Jim work the trick to his advantage?</p><p>4. If you were going to join Tom Sawyer’s gang, what would you have to agree to do?</p><p>5. Why is Tom so confident that he knows how to run a gang of robbers?</p><p>6. What does Tom’s explanation of ransoming indicate about the plot of a typical romance novel? 7. Why do the boys refuse to hold meetings on Sundays? How is this ironic?</p><p>Chapter Three 1. What does Huck dislike about praying? What does Huck decide that there must be two Providences (Gods)?</p><p>2. What does Huck think of Pap? </p><p>3. Why does Huck resign from the gang? </p><p>4. Huck and Tom have very different outlooks on “A-rabs” and on “rubbing lamps” etc. What does this show about their differences?</p><p>Chapter Four 1. Why does Huck “sell” his fortune to Judge Thatcher?</p><p>2. What does the “hair ball” tell Jim about Huck’s future? What point is Twain making with this satire about fortune tellers?</p><p>Chapter Five 1. Describe Pap. Give specific details from the text. </p><p>2. Is Pap realistic? (believable)</p><p>3. How does Pap feel about Huck going to school? How is this ironic?</p><p>4. How does the new Judge find out how Pap really is? What point is Twain making with this satire about people who do good deeds?</p>