CHAPTER 31 Quiz — The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Comprehension Quiz: CHAPTER 31
What natural feature signals that Huck and Jim have traveled deep into the South?
- Alligators swimming alongside the raft in murky bayou waters
- Spanish moss hanging from trees like long gray beards
- Cotton fields stretching along both sides of the riverbank
- Palmetto trees lining the shores and blocking their view
Which of the king and duke's schemes is NOT mentioned as a failed con in Chapter 31?
- A temperance lecture that didn't earn enough for them to get drunk on
- A dancing school where the audience ran them out of town
- A counterfeit money operation that was discovered by authorities
- An elocution ('yellocution') performance that ended with the audience cussing them out
What agreement do Huck and Jim make after the king and duke begin plotting secretly?
- They agree to report the frauds to the authorities at the next town
- They agree to have nothing to do with criminal schemes and to abandon the frauds at the first chance
- They agree to confront the king and duke and demand their share of any profits
- They agree to steal the raft and flee in the middle of the night
How much money does the king receive for selling Jim?
- Twenty dollars, half the posted reward amount
- Forty dollars, far less than the two-hundred-dollar reward
- One hundred dollars, exactly half the reward value
- Two hundred dollars, the full amount listed on the handbill
Who is holding Jim as a captured runaway slave?
- Abram G. Foster, a farmer forty miles from Pikesville
- Silas Phelps, a farmer two miles below Pikesville
- Judge Thatcher, who invested the boys' treasure money
- The sheriff of Pikesville, who recognized the handbill
Why does Huck initially reject the idea of writing to Tom Sawyer about Jim's location?
- He is afraid Tom will come down South and get into danger himself
- He fears Miss Watson would sell Jim further down the river and that people would despise both Jim and Huck
- He doesn't trust Tom to keep the secret from the other boys
- He knows Tom would try to free Jim using an elaborate adventure scheme
What realization prevents Huck from praying successfully?
- He realizes he has forgotten all the prayers the Widow Douglas taught him
- He realizes 'you can't pray a lie' because his heart still wants to help Jim
- He realizes that God would not listen to someone as uneducated as himself
- He realizes praying would mean admitting his sins to Miss Watson directly
What does Huck write in his letter to Miss Watson?
- A confession of all the lies he has told since leaving St. Petersburg
- A request for money to buy Jim's freedom from Silas Phelps
- The location of Jim at Phelps's place and an offer to return him for the reward
- An apology for running away and a promise to return home soon
Which memory of Jim does Huck NOT recall while deciding whether to send the letter?
- Jim standing Huck's watch on top of his own so Huck could sleep
- Jim teaching Huck how to navigate the raft through dangerous rapids
- Jim being glad when Huck came back out of the fog
- Jim calling Huck 'honey' and saying Huck was his best and only friend
What does Huck resolve to do after declaring 'All right, then, I'll go to hell'?
- Return to St. Petersburg and confess everything to Judge Thatcher
- Steal Jim out of slavery again, deciding to 'go the whole hog' into wickedness
- Find Tom Sawyer and ask him to help plan an elaborate rescue mission
- Turn the king and duke in to the authorities as punishment for selling Jim
Why does the duke lie about Jim being sold to 'Abram G. Foster' forty miles away?
- He genuinely believes that is where Jim was taken after being resold
- He wants Huck to walk for three days so the frauds can run the Royal Nonesuch and escape
- He is trying to protect Huck from the dangerous farmer who bought Jim
- He hopes Huck will get lost in the countryside and never return
How does Huck prepare for his plan to rescue Jim?
- He buys a horse and rides directly to the Phelps farm at dawn
- He hides the raft on a woody island, sinks his canoe, puts on store clothes, and scouts the Phelps farm
- He writes a letter to Tom Sawyer asking for help before approaching the farm
- He steals a weapon from the duke and confronts Silas Phelps directly
What is the primary example of dramatic irony in Chapter 31?
- The king pretends to go ashore to scout the town but actually plans to sell Jim
- Huck believes he is committing a sin by helping Jim, while readers recognize his choice as deeply moral
- The duke gives Huck directions to a nonexistent farmer while Huck already knows the truth
- Jim is captured despite being so close to freedom in the free states
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