CHAPTER 33 Practice Quiz — The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain — tap or click to flip
Practice Quiz: CHAPTER 33
Who does Huck meet on the road at the beginning of Chapter 33?
Tom Sawyer, who is traveling toward the Phelps farm.
Why is Tom Sawyer frightened when he first sees Huck?
Tom believes Huck was murdered and thinks he is seeing a ghost.
How does Huck prove to Tom that he is not a ghost?
He invites Tom to come and feel of him (touch him physically).
What does Huck confess to Tom on the road?
He tells Tom he is trying to steal Jim out of slavery.
What is Tom's surprising response to Huck's plan to free Jim?
He enthusiastically says, 'I'll help you steal him!'
Why does Huck's opinion of Tom Sawyer fall after Tom agrees to help free Jim?
Huck thinks helping a slave escape is 'dirty low-down business' and is shocked that the respectable Tom would agree to it.
What plan do Tom and Huck devise for Tom's arrival at the Phelps farm?
Huck will take Tom's trunk and arrive first; Tom will come later pretending to be a stranger.
What false name does Tom use when he arrives at the Phelps farm?
William Thompson from Hicksville, Ohio.
What shocking action does Tom take toward Aunt Sally during his visit?
He kisses her right on the mouth while chatting casually.
How does Aunt Sally react when Tom kisses her?
She is furious, calls him an 'owdacious puppy,' and threatens him with a spinning-stick.
What identity does Tom ultimately reveal to Aunt Sally and Uncle Silas?
He reveals he is Sid Sawyer, Tom's half-brother.
What does Uncle Silas do for the community besides farming?
He is a preacher who built a one-horse log church and school-house at his own expense.
How do the boys learn about the fate of the king and duke?
At supper, one of the children asks to go to the show, and Uncle Silas reveals that Jim told Burton about the scandalous performance.
What happens to the king and duke in this chapter?
They are tarred and feathered by the townspeople and paraded on a rail through the streets.
How do Huck and Tom sneak out of the house to go to town?
They climb out the window and slide down the lightning rod.
What is Huck's emotional reaction to seeing the king and duke tarred and feathered?
He feels sick and sorry for them, declaring that 'human beings can be awful cruel to one another.'
What does Huck say about conscience at the end of the chapter?
He says a person's conscience 'ain't got no sense' and punishes people whether they do right or wrong.
What literary device does Twain use when Huck's opinion of Tom falls for helping free Jim?
Irony — Huck judges Tom for the very thing Huck himself is doing.
What does Tom's immediate eagerness to help free Jim foreshadow about his motives?
It foreshadows that Tom may know something about Jim's situation that Huck does not (later revealed that Jim is already free).
What simile does Twain use to describe Tom lifting his hat upon arrival?
'Like it was the lid of a box that had butterflies asleep in it and he didn't want to disturb them.'