Huck Finn Questions

Instructions

As you view the video, please make note of the following:

• Answering these questions will help you on your multiple/choice quiz you will take later in this lesson.

• You will not submit your responses to these questions.

• These questions are meant as a study/video guide only.

  1. In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck is known as what compared to Tom Sawyer?

  2. Some scholars have described this as the greatest novel ever written. What reasons are suggested as to why this is such a great American novel?

  3. We know that Pap, Huck's drunken father, returns during the course of the novel to "regain custody" of Huck. The real reason, of course, is because he wants to steal Huck's inheritance. What do you suppose Twain meant for Pap to represent?

  4. Who is Huck living with before he is kidnapped by Pap?

  5. What does it mean for a slave, especially an escaped slave, to be "sold down the river," and why would this phrase bring about fear in Jim?

  6. Though this novel was written in 1885, the setting is actually when?

  7. According to the video, what does the Mississippi River represent?

  8. Huck thinks that he is bad. The audience thinks that he is good. This is an example of what clever literary device used by Twain?