Huckleberry Finn
1 Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?
a Huckleberry liked wearing clean, new
clothes.
b Huckleberry was learning to read and write
at school.
c Pop wanted Huckleberry to give him money.
d Pop took Huckleberry to a hut in the
woods.
e Jim dressed up as a girl and went into town.
f Jim was killed when the steamboat hit the
raft.
g The man called ‘the King’ was the son of
the King of France.
h When Huckleberry arrived at the Phelps’
house, he said his name was Tom Sawyer.
i Pop took all of Huckleberry’s money.
j At the end, Huckleberry learnt that Pop was
dead.
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2 Who in the story? The Widow Douglas, Judge
Thatcher, Pop, Jim, Mrs Phelps
a ... was always drunk. ...............
b ... was a black slave. ...............
c ... was Tom Sawyer’s aunt. ...............
d ... gave Huckleberry clean clothes. ...............
e ... looked after Huckleberry’s money. ...............
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3 Look at this picture and answer the questions.
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a Who are the two people?
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b Why is the man afraid?
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TEST
4 Match a number from A with a letter from B to make
complete sentences.
A
1 When Pop heard that Huckleberry was
going to school ...
2 Huckleberry made a hole in the wall of the
hut ...
3 When Aunt Sally arrived at the Phelps’
house ...
4 Jim had to hide on Jackson Island ...
5 Tom needed to see a doctor ...
a ... Huckleberry decided to hide under the bed.
b ... because he was an escaped slave.
c ... he was very angry.
d ... because he had a bullet in his leg.
e ... because he wanted to escape from Pop.
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5 Who said this in the story? Jim, Huckleberry, Tom
sawyer, Pop, Mrs Phelps
a ‘I can’t read and your mother couldn’t read; no
one in our family could read.’ ...............
b ‘It’s got to be a real escape, like a real
adventure in a story-book’ ...............
c ‘We thought you were coming two days ago.
Your Uncle Silas goes to town every day to 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.’ ...............
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Setting 14 Pop sometimes _____ Huckleberry.

a c hits  b c helps   
Choose the best answer.
c c reads for  d c shops with
1 At the beginning, Huckleberry Finn lives near 15 _____ makes Huckleberry wear new clean
the town of _____. clothes all the time.
a c St Petersburg  b c Cairo    a c Widow Douglas  b c Jim   
c c St Louis  d c New Orleans c c Pop  d c Tom Sawyer
2 Huckleberry lives at the house of _____. 16 Miss Watson is the _____ of Widow Douglas.
a c Aunt Polly  b c Tom Sawyer    a c friend  b c mother   
c c Widow Douglas  d c Judge Thatcher c c daughter  d c sister
3 When Huckleberry was younger he slept in 17 Jim is Miss Watson’s _____.
_____. a c doctor  b c boyfriend   
a c a beautiful bed  b c a tent    c c slave  d c gardener
c c an old bath  d c the woods and the fields 18 Huckleberry is Jim’s _____.
4 One night, Huckleberry hears a ‘mee-yow’ a c son  b c brother  c c owner  d c friend
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_____. 19 Mrs Phelps is the sister of _____ Aunt Polly.

a c under his bed  b c outside his window    a c Jim’s  b c Tom Sawyer’s   
c c behind his door  d c in his bag c c Huckleberry’s  d c Pop’s
5 Tom Sawyer’s gang meets _____. 20 Mr and Mrs Phelps think that Huckleberry is
TEST

a c in a cave  b c in an old house    _____.

c c on an island  d c up a tree a c a girl  b c a slave   
6 Pop takes Huckleberry up the river to an old c c Tom Sawyer  d c the Duke of Bridgewater
_____ in the woods.
a c cave  b c hut  c c house  d c boat 20 marks
7 When Huckleberry escapes from Pop, he goes to
_____ where he meets Jim again.
a c an old school  b c a hotel    Dialogue
c c a small town  d c an island
Who said or wrote this?
8 Huckleberry, Jim, the Duke and the King all go
21 ‘Don’t put your feet there, Huckleberry. Don’t
down the Mississippi River on a _____.
do that, Huckleberry.’
a c steamboat  b c canoe  c c ship  d c raft
a c Pop  b c Miss Watson   
9 Huckleberry goes to the house of Mr and Mrs
c c Judge Thatcher  d c Tom Sawyer
Phelps to look for _____.
22 ‘Sir, I want you to take all my money. I want to
a c Jim  b c Tom Sawyer   
give it to you.’
c c Pop  d c Judge Thatcher
a c Judge Thatcher  b c Tom Sawyer   
10 Tom is happy after his adventure with
c c Huckleberry Finn  d c Widow Douglas
Huckleberry because he has a bullet in his
23 ‘And if a boy from the gang tells other people
_____.
our secrets, we’ll kill him and his family too.’
a c head  b c arm  c c leg  d c hand
a c Pop  b c Jim   
20 marks c c Widow Douglas  d c Tom Sawyer
24 ‘Well, you can forget about school. I can’t read
and your mother couldn’t read; …’
Characters a c Pop  b c Jim   
c c Huckleberry Finn  d c Widow Douglas
Choose the best answer.
25 ‘I haven’t got any money. Ask Judge Thatcher.
11 Huckleberry Finn is a _____. He’ll tell you. I haven’t got any money.’
a c boy  b c girl  c c man  d c old man a c Miss Watson  b c Tom Sawyer   
12 Tom Sawyer is Huckleberry’s _____. c c Huckleberry Finn  d c Aunt Sally
a c father  b c brother    26 ‘Old Miss Watson wanted to sell me.’
c c best friend  d c teacher a c Pop  b c Jim   
13 Huckleberry’s father, Pop, is always _____. c c Tom Sawyer  d c Widow Douglas
a c happy  b c drunk  c c ill  d c afraid

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27 ‘I’ll be happier if you do things for me. Bring me Plot

my dinner!’
Choose the best answer.
a c Aunt Polly  b c Jim  c c Huckleberry Finn
d c the Duke of Bridgewater 41 Huckleberry wants to live _____.
28 ‘Well, what took you so long? We thought you a c in a house  b c in the woods   
were coming two days ago.’ c c in a hotel  d c with a family
a c Aunt Sally  b c Miss Watson    42 One day, Huckleberry finds some _____ in the
c c Pop  d c Widow Douglas snow outside his house.
29 ‘It’s got to be a real escape, like a real adventure a c footprints  b c money   
in a story-book. So we want something difficult c c food  d c books
and dangerous.’ 43 In the woods Huckleberry _____ his father.
a c Miss Watson  b c Jim    a c watches  b c escapes from   
c c Tom Sawyer  d c Uncle Silas c c hits  d c kills
30 ‘I haven’t got any money to buy the right clothes 44 Huckleberry kills a _____ and throws it in the
and things. All my money back in St Petersburg river.
a c cat  b c horse  c c pig  d c dog

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will be in Pop’s pockets by now.’
a c Widow Douglas  b c Huckleberry Finn    45 When Jim sees Huckleberry he is very surprised.
c c Tom Sawyer  d c Aunt Sally He thinks Huckleberry is _____.
a c dead  b c ill  c c in Ohio  d c in New

TEST
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46 When he’s living on the island, Huckleberry
puts on the clothes of a _____ and goes into
Vocabulary town.
a c slave  b c girl  c c rich man  d c judge
Choose the best answer.
47 The Phelpses make Jim a prisoner and put him
31 the most important man in a country
in _____.
a c queen  b c king  c c prince  d c film star
a c their garden  b c their house   
32 a person who belongs to another person and
c c a hut  d c a boat
who must work for that person for no money
48 Huckleberry and Tom want Jim to be a _____
a c cleaner  b c maid  c c slave  d c servant
man.
33 to take something that is not yours
a c good  b c rich  c c poor  d c free
a c rob  b c buy  c c borrow  d c find
49 Jim says the dead man on the river is really
34 when something is not dirty
_____.
a c broken  b c clean  c c cheap  d c old
a c Pop  b c Judge Thatcher   
35 a small piece of metal that shoots out of a gun
c c Tom Sawyer  d c Mr Phelps
a c bullet  b c knife  c c key  d c coin
50 At the end, Huckleberry learns that he has
36 a woman whose husband is dead
_____.
a c grandmother  b c mother   
a c no money  b c only two dollars   
c c wife  d c widow
c c only twenty dollars  d c all of the money.
37 a small building with one room
a c raft  b c hut  c c flat  d c bedroom 20 marks
38 a group of people who sometimes do bad things
a c couple  b c party  c c gang  d c class
39 when a person has too much alcohol Total marks
a c drunk  b c afraid  c c worried  d c lost
40 something that you say that is not true
a c sentence  b c answer   
c c question  d c lie

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