OXFORD BOOKWORMS COMPREHENSION TEST

Stage 2
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.
20 marks
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. ...............
20 marks
3 Look at this picture.
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 ...
B
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.
20 marks
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.’ ...............
20 marks

Total marks

a Who are the two people?

………………………………………..………………
b Why is the man afraid?
………………………………………..………………
20 marks

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OXFORD BOOKWORMS COMPREHENSION TEST ANSWERS
Stage 2
Huckleberry Finn

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

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 OXFORD BOOKWORMS MULTIPLE CHOICE
TEST
Stage 2
Huckleberry Finn
SETTING 8 Huckleberry, Jim, the Duke and the King all
go down the Mississippi River on a _____.
Choose the best answer. a  steamboat
1 At the beginning, Huckleberry Finn lives b  canoe
near the town of _____. c  ship
a  St Petersburg d  raft
b  Cairo
9 Huckleberry goes to the house of Mr and
c  St Louis
Mrs Phelps to look for _____.
d  New Orleans
a  Jim
2 Huckleberry lives at the house of _____. b  Tom Sawyer
a  Aunt Polly c  Pop
b  Tom Sawyer d  Judge Thatcher
c  Widow Douglas
10 Tom is happy after his adventure with
d  Judge Thatcher
Huckleberry because he has a bullet in
3 When Huckleberry was younger he slept his_____.
in _____. a  head
a  a beautiful bed b  arm
b  a tent c  leg
c  an old bath d  hand
d  the woods and the fields
20 marks
4 One night, Huckleberry hears a
‘mee-yow’ _____.
CHARACTERS
a  under his bed
b  outside his window Choose the best answer.
c  behind his door 11 Huckleberry Finn is a _____.
d  in his bag a  boy
5 Tom Sawyer’s gang meets _____. b  girl
a  in a cave c  man
b  in an old house d  old man
c  on an island 12 Tom Sawyer is Huckleberry’s _____.
d  up a tree a  father
6 Pop takes Huckleberry up the river to an b  brother
old _____ in the woods. c  best friend
a  cave d  teacher
b  hut 13 Huckleberry’s father, Pop, is always _____.
c  house a  happy
d  boat b  drunk
7 When Huckleberry escapes from Pop, c  ill
he goes to _____ where he meets Jim d  afraid
again. 14 Pop sometimes _____ Huckleberry.
a  an old school a  hits
b  a hotel b  helps
c  a small town c  reads for
d  an island d  shops with

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 OXFORD BOOKWORMS MULTIPLE CHOICE
TEST
Stage 2
Huckleberry Finn
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

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 OXFORD BOOKWORMS MULTIPLE CHOICE
TEST
Stage 2
Huckleberry Finn
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

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 OXFORD BOOKWORMS MULTIPLE CHOICE
TEST
Stage 2
Huckleberry Finn
44 Huckleberry kills a _____ and throws it in
the river.
a  cat
b  horse
c  pig
d  dog
45 When Jim sees Huckleberry he is very
surprised. He thinks Huckleberry is _____.
a  dead
b  ill
c  in Ohio
d  in New Orleans
46 When he’s living on the island, Huckleberry
puts on the clothes of a _____ and goes
into town.
a  slave
b  girl
c  rich man
d  judge
47 The Phelpses make Jim a prisoner and put
him in _____.
a  their garden
b  their house
c  a hut
d  a boat
48 Huckleberry and Tom want Jim to be
a _____ man.
a  good
b  rich
c  poor
d  free
49 Jim says the dead man on the river is
really _____.
a  Pop
b  Judge Thatcher
c  Tom Sawyer
d  Mr Phelps
50 At the end, Huckleberry learns that he
has _____.
a  no money
b  only two dollars
c  only twenty dollars
d  all of the money.
20 marks

Total marks

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OXFORD BOOKWORMS MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST ANSWERS
Stage 2
Huckleberry Finn

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

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 OXFORD BOOKWORMS BOOK ACTIVITY ANSWERS
Stage 2
Huckleberry Finn

BEFORE READING 3 The King to Huck and Jim

Activity 1
1 No 2 Yes 3 No 4 Yes 5 Yes 6 Yes 7 No
Activity 2
Do not give the answers to this activity but
encourage students to speculate and to
make guesses. They will find out as they
read that the ‘yes’ answers are 2, 4 and 5.
WHILE READING
4 Huck to Jim
5 A boy to Huck
6 A woman (Mrs Phelps) to Huck
7 The woman (Mrs Phelps) to her husband (Mr
Phelps)
Before Reading Chapter 5
Encourage students to speculate and to
make guesses but do not tell them the
answers. They will find out as they read
that the ‘yes’ answers are 1, 3 and 7.

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 Why . . .? Because he was a runaway
never 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
woods. died, 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

Chapter 3 AFTER READING

1T Activity 1
2 F The woman in the little house didn’t know
When I came back from town, the door of the
Huck.
hut was broken. I went inside and saw
3T
blood on the floor, and there was an axe in
4 F If someone catches Jim, they will get three
the corner. I think that someone came to
hundred dollars.
the hut and killed Huck with the axe,
5T
because there was blood and hair on it.
6T
Then they pulled his body along the
7 F The steamboat hit the raft.
ground to the river.
8 T
9 F The raft didn’t break up when the Activity 2
steamboat hit it.
river: canoe, fish, raft, steamboat, swim,
10 F Jim and Huck decided to leave at once.
water
Chapter 4 adventure: bullet, gang, kill, robbers, shoot,
1 Two men (the Duke and the King) to Huck steal
and Jim
Activity 3
2 The young man to Huck and Jim

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 OXFORD BOOKWORMS BOOK ACTIVITY ANSWERS
Stage 2
Huckleberry Finn

The picture goes on page 15. 5 Huck didn’t tell Jim that the King and the
1 Huck Duke 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
Lines from the text on page 15 would make
his 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.

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