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Obw Huckleberry Finn
Obw Huckleberry Finn
Stage 2
Huckleberry Finn
1 Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)? 4 Match a number from A with a letter from
a ___ Huckleberry liked wearing clean, B to make complete sentences.
new clothes. A
b ___ Huckleberry was learning to read and 1 ___ When Pop heard that Huckleberry was
write at school. going to school ...
c ___ Pop wanted Huckleberry to give 2 ___ Huckleberry made a hole in the wall of
him money. the hut ...
d ___ Pop took Huckleberry to a hut in 3 ___ When Aunt Sally arrived at the Phelps’
the woods. house ...
e ___ Jim dressed up as a girl and went 4 ___ Jim had to hide on Jackson Island ...
into town. 5 ___ Tom needed to see a doctor ...
f ___ Jim was killed when the steamboat hit
the raft. B
g ___ The man called ‘the King’ was the son a Huckleberry decided to hide under the bed.
of the King of France. b because he was an escaped slave.
h ___ When Huckleberry arrived at the c he was very angry.
Phelps’ house, he said his name was d because he had a bullet in his leg.
Tom Sawyer. e because he wanted to escape from Pop.
i ___ Pop took all of Huckleberry’s money.
j ___ At the end, Huckleberry learnt that Pop
5 Who said this in the story? Jim,
was dead.
Huckleberry, Tom Sawyer, Pop, Mrs
2 Who in the story …? The Widow Phelps.
Douglas, Judge Thatcher, Pop, Jim,
a ‘I can’t read and your mother couldn’t read;
Mrs Phelps.
no one in our family could read.’ ...............
a was always drunk. ............... b ‘It’s got to be a real escape, like a real
b was a black slave. ............... adventure in a story-book’ ...............
c was Tom Sawyer’s aunt. ............... c ‘We thought you were coming two days ago.
d gave Huckleberry clean clothes. ............... Your Uncle Silas goes to town every day to
e looked after Huckleberry’s money. ............... meet you.’ ..............
d ‘Old Miss Watson wanted to sell me ... so I
ran away.’ ...............
e ‘They won’t know it’s only a pig ... They’ll
think it’s me.’ ...............
1
a F
b T
c T
d T
e F
f F
g F
h T
i F
j T
2
a Pop
b Jim
c Mrs Phelps
d The Widow Douglas
e Judge Thatcher
3
a Jim and Huckleberry (Finn).
b Jim is afraid because he thinks Huckleberry
is dead.
4
1 c
2 e
3 a
4 b
5 d
5
a Pop
b Tom Sawyer
c Mrs Phelps
d Jim
e Huckleberry
15 _____ makes Huckleberry wear new clean 22 ‘Sir, I want you to take all my money. I want
clothes all the time. to give it to you.’
a Widow Douglas a Judge Thatcher
b Jim b Tom Sawyer
c Pop c Huckleberry Finn
d Tom Sawyer d Widow Douglas
16 Miss Watson is the _____ of 23 ‘And if a boy from the gang tells other
Widow Douglas. people our secrets, we’ll kill him and his
a friend family too.’
b mother a Pop
c daughter b Jim
d sister c Widow Douglas
d Tom Sawyer
17 Jim is Miss Watson’s _____.
a doctor 24 ‘Well, you can forget about school. I can’t
b boyfriend read and your mother couldn’t read; …’
c slave a Pop
d gardener b Jim
c Huckleberry Finn
18 Huckleberry is Jim’s _____.
d Widow Douglas
a son
b brother 25 ‘I haven’t got any money. Ask Judge
c owner Thatcher. He’ll tell you. I haven’t got any
d friend money.’
a Miss Watson
19 Mrs Phelps is the sister of _____ Aunt Polly.
b Tom Sawyer
a Jim’s
c Huckleberry Finn
b Tom Sawyer’s
d Aunt Sally
c Huckleberry’s
d Pop’s 26 ‘Old Miss Watson wanted to sell me.’
a Pop
20 Mr and Mrs Phelps think that Huckleberry
b Jim
is _____.
c Tom Sawyer
a a girl
d Widow Douglas
b a slave
c Tom Sawyer 27 ‘I’ll be happier if you do things for me. Bring
d the Duke of Bridgewater me my dinner!’
a Aunt Polly
20 marks
b Jim
c Huckleberry Finn
DIALOGUE d the Duke of Bridgewater
Who said or wrote this? 28 ‘Well, what took you so long? We thought
21 ‘Don’t put your feet there, Huckleberry. Don’t you were coming two days ago.’
do that, Huckleberry.’ a Aunt Sally
a Pop b Miss Watson
b Miss Watson c Pop
c Judge Thatcher d Widow Douglas
d Tom Sawyer
29 ‘It’s got to be a real escape, like a real 36 a woman whose husband is dead
adventure in a story-book. So we want a grandmother
something difficult and dangerous.’ b mother
a Miss Watson c wife
b Jim d widow
c Tom Sawyer
37 a small building with one room
d Uncle Silas
a raft
30 ‘I haven’t got any money to buy the right b hut
clothes and things. All my money back in St c flat
Petersburg will be in Pop’s pockets by now.’ d bedroom
a Widow Douglas
38 a group of people who sometimes do bad
b Huckleberry Finn
things
c Tom Sawyer
a couple
d Aunt Sally
b party
20 marks c gang
d class
VOCABULARY 39 when a person has too much alcohol
a drunk
Choose the best answer.
b afraid
31 the most important man in a country c worried
a queen d lost
b king
c prince 40 something that you say that is not true
d film star a sentence
b answer
32 a person who belongs to another person c question
and who must work for that person for d lie
no money
20 marks
a cleaner
b maid
c slave PLOT
d servant
Choose the best answer.
33 to take something that is not yours
41 Huckleberry wants to live _____.
a rob
a in a house
b buy
b in the woods
c borrow
c in a hotel
d find
d with a family
34 when something is not dirty
42 One day, Huckleberry finds some _____ in
a broken
the snow outside his house.
b clean
a footprints
c cheap
b money
d old
c food
35 a small piece of metal that shoots out of d books
a gun
43 In the woods Huckleberry _____ his father.
a bullet
a watches
b knife
b escapes from
c key
c hits
d coin
d kills
Total marks
SETTING PLOT
1 a 41 b
2 c 42 a
3 d 43 b
4 b 44 c
5 a 45 a
6 b 46 b
7 d 47 c
8 d 48 d
9 a 49 a
10 c 50 d
CHARACTERS
11 a
12 c
13 b
14 a
15 a
16 d
17 c
18 d
19 b
20 c
DIALOGUE
21 b
22 c
23 d
24 a
25 c
26 b
27 d
28 a
29 c
30 b
VOCABULARY
31 b
32 c
33 a
34 b
35 a
36 d
37 b
38 c
39 a
40 d
Chapter 1 Chapter 5
1 $6,000 each. 1 Where . . .? In St Petersburg.
2 Because he got drunk and moved around a 2 Who . . .? Tom’s Aunt Polly.
lot. 3 Why . . .? Because he thought that he was
3 Because he had to wear new clothes and be dead.
good. 4 Who . . .? His brother Sid.
4 The Widow Douglas’s sister. 5 Why . . .? Because it was too easy.
5 Rob and kill people. 6 Where . . .? In a hut outside the house. /
6 Because they never robbed people and never Why . . .? Because he was a runaway
killed them. slave and the Phelpses wanted $300.
7 Miss Watson. 7 Why . . .? Because people always did that in
8 Because he didn’t want his father to get it. books.
9 To get a drink. 8 Why . . .? Because he had a bullet in his leg.
10 A long way up the river, to a hut in the 9 Why . . .? Because before Miss Watson died,
woods. she wrote that she wanted Jim to be a
free man.
Chapter 2
10 Who . . .? Huck’s father.
The correct order is: 2, 4, 8, 6, 3, 1, 7, 5
The picture goes on page 15. 5 Huck didn’t tell Jim that the King and the Duke
1 Huck weren’t really a king and a duke.
2 Jim 6 Huck told the Duke and the King that Jim
3 The body of a dead man (Huck’s father) belonged to his uncle.
7 Huck told the people in the big old house that his
Lines from the text on page 15 would make
name was George Jackson.
suitable captions, for example:
8 Huck didn’t tell Mrs Phelps that he wasn’t Tom
• ‘Don’t look at his face, Huck,’ said Sawyer.
Jim. 9 Tom didn’t tell Huck that Jim was a free man.
• I didn’t want to see the dead man’s
Activity 6
face, so I didn’t look.
Possible sentences:
Activity 4 • Huck was clever because he made
3 Tom: Now, listen to this. Jim is locked up in a people think that he was dead.
hut. We must get him out. • Tom was crazy because he wanted
9 Huck: How are we going to do that? someone to shoot him.
11 Tom: We’ll dig a hole under the wall of the • Jim was brave because he stayed with
hut. Tom when Tom was shot.
7 Huck: But the Phelpses will see us. • Miss Watson was kind because she
2 Tom: No, they won’t. We’ll do it at night. wanted Jim to be a free man.
12 Huck: Jim will hear us, won’t he? • Mr and Mrs Phelps were stupid because
4 Tom: Yes, but we’ll tell him our plan. I know they believed Tom and Huck.
he’ll be pleased. But we must make it really • The King and the Duke were dangerous
dangerous, like in a book. because they were always drunk.
10 Huck: What do people do in books?
5 Tom: They write secret letters.
1 Huck: Letters? But what will we write in our
letters?
13 Tom: We’ll write that a gang of slave-thieves
wants to steal Jim and get the money. Then
they’ll try to stop us. Perhaps they’ll shoot us.
Won’t that be exciting?
8 Huck: Very exciting. But how will we escape if
they’re shooting at us?
6 Tom: We can run to the river, get into the
canoe, and go to Spanish Island to get the
raft.
Activity 5
Possible sentences:
1 Jim didn’t tell Huck that his father was dead.
2 Huck told the woman in the little house that his
name was Sarah Williams / Mary Williams /
Sarah Mary Williams.
3 The Duke told Huck and Jim that his
grandfather was the son of the Duke of
Bridgewater.
4 The King told Huck and Jim that he was the
first son of the King of France.