CHAPTER 6 Quiz — The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Where does Pap take Huck after kidnapping him?

• To a cave downriver near Jackson's Island
• To a log cabin on the Illinois shore
• To a boarding house in the next town
• To a houseboat anchored in the Mississippi

How does Pap secure the cabin to prevent Huck from escaping at night?

• He ties Huck to the bed with rope
• He nails boards over the windows
• He locks the door and sleeps with the key under his head
• He chains Huck to the table leg

What does Huck find hidden in the cabin that he uses to plan his escape?

• A rusty wood-saw without a handle
• A chisel hidden under the floorboards
• An axe buried near the fireplace
• A loose board in the cabin wall

What is Pap primarily complaining about in his govment speech?

• The price of whisky and food at the store
• The law trying to take his son and money, and a free Black professor who can vote
• The widow's interference with his parenting
• The poor condition of roads and public buildings

What happens to Pap during his drunken rant that provides comic relief?

• He falls asleep mid-sentence
• He trips over a tub of salt pork, barks his shins, and kicks it with his broken-toed boot
• He accidentally shoots his gun through the roof
• He walks into the door and knocks himself out

What medical condition does Pap experience after heavy drinking?

• A seizure
• A heart attack
• Delirium tremens
• A stroke

What does Pap call Huck during his delirium tremens hallucination?

• The Devil
• The Angel of Death
• A river ghost
• Tom Sawyer

Why does Huck say he continued going to school despite not wanting to?

• The Widow Douglas threatened to punish him
• Judge Thatcher paid him for each day of attendance
• He wanted to spite Pap, who ordered him to stop going
• Miss Watson convinced him it would help him get into heaven

Huck successfully escapes the cabin through the hole he saws in Chapter 6.

Pap chases Huck around the cabin with a clasp-knife during his delirium tremens.

What is a skiff as used in the chapter?

• A type of fishing net
• A small, flat-bottomed boat
• A wooden raft
• A horse-drawn cart

What does delirium tremens refer to in the context of the chapter?

• A type of fever common on the Mississippi
• A severe condition with hallucinations caused by excessive alcohol consumption
• A nightmare caused by sleeping in a cold cabin
• A religious vision experienced during prayer

When Huck says he was all over welts, what does he mean?

• He was covered in mosquito bites
• He had a rash from poison ivy
• He had raised marks on his skin from being beaten
• He was sunburned from fishing all day