CHAPTER 29 Quiz — The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Comprehension Quiz: CHAPTER 29
Who arrives in town at the beginning of Chapter 29 claiming to be the Wilks brothers?
- Two young men from Louisville with a letter from Peter Wilks
- A nice-looking old gentleman and a younger man with his arm in a sling
- A lawyer and a doctor who say they knew Peter Wilks in England
- Two riverboat gamblers who heard about the inheritance
How does the king initially respond to the arrival of the new claimants?
- He turns pale and tries to flee the town immediately
- He suggests a private meeting to discuss the matter calmly
- He laughs and mocks them, pointing out the convenience of the broken arm and lost baggage
- He admits his fraud and begs for mercy from the crowd
Who is Hines and why is he significant?
- He is Peter Wilks's business partner who recognizes the king's handwriting
- He is a big rough man who saw the king arrive by canoe and identifies Huck publicly
- He is the local sheriff who arrests the duke at the tavern
- He is Mary Jane's neighbor who delivers a message to Levi Bell
What excuse does the king give for the missing bag of gold?
- He claims he deposited it in a bank in the next town for safekeeping
- He says the enslaved people he sold stole it from inside his straw mattress
- He accuses Levi Bell of hiding it to frame him as a fraud
- He says he mailed it to Harvey Wilks's address in England
Why does the handwriting test devised by Levi Bell prove inconclusive?
- The ink was too faded in the original letters to make any valid comparison
- Neither the frauds' nor the new claimant's writing matches, since William always copied Harvey's letters
- Both sets of handwriting match the letters equally well, creating a stalemate
- Levi Bell accidentally destroys the comparison letters during the examination
What does the king claim is tattooed on Peter Wilks's breast?
- The initials P—B—W with dashes between them
- A small American flag with thirteen stars
- A small, thin, blue arrow that is hard to see
- A cross with the name "Mary" beneath it
What do Ab Turner and his partner testify about the marks on Peter Wilks's body?
- They confirm the blue arrow that the king described seeing
- They confirm the initials P—B—W that the real Harvey described
- They say they saw no marks at all on his breast
- They refuse to testify because they are afraid of the crowd
Who proposes digging up Peter Wilks's corpse?
- Doctor Robinson, who has been suspicious from the beginning
- The real Harvey Wilks, to prove his brother's identity
- Hines, the man who spotted the king arriving by canoe
- Levi Bell, the lawyer, who jumps on a table to address the mob
What is discovered inside Peter Wilks's coffin?
- A letter naming the king and duke as the true heirs
- The bag of gold that Huck had hidden on the dead man's breast
- Peter Wilks's initials tattooed clearly on his breast
- An empty coffin—the body had already been moved
How does Huck manage to escape from the graveyard mob?
- Mary Jane arrives with the sheriff and creates a diversion
- Jim paddles a canoe to the graveyard and picks Huck up
- Hines drops Huck's wrist in excitement over the gold, and Huck runs
- Doctor Robinson lets Huck go because he believes the boy is innocent
Why is Huck startled when he boards the raft and sees Jim?
- Jim has been captured and tied up by slave catchers
- Jim has forgotten that Huck was still alive and thought he drowned
- Huck forgot Jim was still disguised as old King Lear and a drowned Arab
- Jim is holding a weapon because he thought the king and duke were coming
What does Huck see when he glances at Mary Jane's window while fleeing through town?
- Mary Jane waving a white handkerchief as a signal to him
- The window is dark and boarded up, which fills him with dread
- A flash of light appears in the window, making his heart swell
- Mary Jane holding up the paper where Huck wrote about the gold
What devastating event occurs at the very end of Chapter 29?
- Jim is recaptured by slave catchers waiting on the riverbank
- The raft breaks apart in the storm, leaving Huck and Jim stranded
- The king and duke appear in a skiff, rowing toward the raft
- Huck discovers that Mary Jane's note has fallen into the river
What literary device does Twain use with the thunderstorm during the graveyard scene?
- Foreshadowing, hinting that the king will escape punishment by fleeing
- Pathetic fallacy, where the storm mirrors the chaos and danger of the scene
- Allusion, referencing the biblical story of Lazarus rising from the dead
- Hyperbole, exaggerating ordinary weather into an impossible hurricane
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