The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Questions and Answers
Who is Colonel Sherburn, and what aspect of human nature does he criticize in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Why does Mark Twain use a thirteen-year-old boy as the narrator of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Which characters die in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? How do they die?
What are some conflicts in chapters 1–15 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
How does the old lady discover that Huck is a boy? *
What are the similarities and differences between the characters Huck and Jim in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
What is the narrative structure of Huckleberry Finn?
What is Mark Twain's message in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Give three examples of Man vs. Society in chapters 8-11 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Why does Huck put a dead snake on Jim's blanket in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
What is Twain satirizing through the duke and the king?
In chapter 14 of Huckleberry Finn, what is Jim's main argument against people speaking different languages, and why is this ironic?
Describe the Grangerfords' house. What is Huck's impression of their house?
How does Huck know the King and the Duke are frauds in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
What does Twain imply in the quote below? "What was the use to tell Jim these warn’t real kings and dukes? It wouldn’t a done no good, and besides, it was just as I said; you couldn’t tell them from the real king.”
What does Huck mean by this statement? "And she took snuff too. Of Course, that was all right, because she done it herself."
What purpose did Huck faking his own death serve in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Explain how Huck and Tom function as foils when they play the “robber game.”
What is the difference, if any, between Huck's "good" lies to protect Jim, and the King and the Duke's "bad" lies? Lying occurs frequently in this novel. Curiously, some lies, like those Huck tells to save Jim, seem to be “good” lies, while others, like the cons of the duke and the dauphin, seem to be “bad.” What is the difference? Are both “wrong”? Why does so much lying go on in Huckleberry Finn? Please include quotes and page/chapter numbers
Why did Tom want to go through the adventure of freeing Jim if he was already free? Was it just for the excitement and thrill? Did it have a deeper meaning? Did Tom seem to represent the South/civilization?
Describe the writing and artwork of Emmeline Grangerford. What does Huck think of her pictures and poems?
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, how would you compare and contrast life on the raft to life on shore?
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn why doesn’t Huck expose the Duke and King Dauphin as frauds?
What is Twain implying about human nature through the advertising for the “Royal Nonesuch”?
How does Jim's story about his daughter 'Lizabeth alter the way Huck thinks about Jim in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
What was the hairball oracle incident in Huckleberry Finn?
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, what does "civilization" mean to Huck?
Why does the king confess that he is the one who stole the gold and put it in the coffin in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Who is Emmeline Grangerford?
Pap (Huck's father) said these quotes in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. How are they ironic or hypocritical? "he raised his son to go to work and do sunthin' for him." "Judge Thatcher keeps me out o' my property." "...lets him go round in clothes that ain't fittin for a hog." "I've a mightly directed notion to just leave the country." "[he is] one of the wealthiest men in this town if I could get my rights." "I'll never vote ag'in." "he wouldn't 'a' give me the road if I hadn't shoved him out o' the way." "prowling, thieving, infernal, white-shirted free."
What effect does Twain's heavy use of vernacular, or dialect, in The adventures of Huckleberry Finn have on our reading of the story? This question pertains to chapters 1-31
What does Jim's story about the way he treated his deaf daughter in Chapter 23 of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" tell us about him?
Is there anything left undecided at the end of the novel?
How does Huck Finn connect to us as Americans?
Why might tearing up the letter Huck wrote to Miss Watson in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn be described as one of the greatest moments in American history?
Is Huck gay?
What is a quote Huck uses that shows he is immature in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Why does Jim run away from Miss Watson in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
What is Twain satirizing in the episode where Colonel Sherburn shoots Boggs in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in what way is the church service attended by the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons an attack on the religion of Twain's day?
Discuss Huck's view of death and the afterlife in Chapter 1 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
What are eight places to which Huck and Jim travel along the Mississippi in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
What purposes does Huck's (faked) death serve in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
What are some examples of satire in chapter 12 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Satire In Huckleberry Finn
Huck has a major moral crisis in Chapter 31. He writes a letter to Miss Watson telling her where Jim is, but then changes his mind, saying, “All right, then, I’ll go to hell!—and tore it up. It was awful thoughts and awful words, but they was said. And I let them stay said; and never thought no more about reforming” (170-71). What is the crisis Huck has, and why does he choose not to send the letter?
Hyperbole In Huckleberry Finn
What is the major conflict of Huckleberry Finn?
What is the climax of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
What are some examples of Twain's humor in Chapter 1 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
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