• Huck was adopted by the Widow Douglas, a kind but stifling woman who lives with her sister, the self-righteous Miss Watson. • All is well and good until Huck’s brutish, drunken father, Pap, reappears in town and demands Huck’s money. • The new judge in town believes in the rights of Huck’s natural father and even takes the old drunk into his own home in an attempt to reform him. • Pap kidnaps Huck and holds him in a cabin across the river from St. Petersburg. • Huck escapes from Pap by faking his own death, and hides on Jackson’s Island in the middle of the Mississippi River. • After a few days on the island, he encounters Jim, one of Miss Watson’s slaves. Huck and Jim team up. • Huck has a brief moral crisis about concealing stolen “property”—Jim, but then lies to the men and tells them that his father is on the raft suffering from smallpox. • Huck and Jim rescue a pair of men who are being pursued by armed bandits. • The men, clearly con artists, claim to be a displaced English duke (the duke) and the long-lost heir to the French throne (the dauphin). • Coming into one town, they hear the story of a man, Peter Wilks, who has recently died and left much of his inheritance to his two brothers, who should be arriving from England any day. • The duke and the dauphin enter the town pretending to be Wilks’s brothers. • The duke and dauphin sell Jim to a local farmer. • At the house where Jim is a prisoner, a woman greets Huck excitedly and calls him “Tom.” • He intercepts Tom, and Tom pretends to be his own younger brother, Sid. • Jim is freed, but a pursuer shoots Tom in the leg. Huck is forced to get a doctor, and Jim sacrifices his freedom to nurse Tom. • Tom reveals that Jim has actually been a free man all along. • Aunt Sally then steps in and offers to adopt Huck, but Huck, who has had enough “civilizing,” announces his plan to set out for the West.
1. One of the most famous books written by "Mark Twain " is called: a. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer b. The Adventures of Huckleberry Sawyer c. The Adventures of Tom and Huck Finn
2. What was Mark Twain's profession? a. Composer b. Musician c. Writer d. Painter
3. What was Mark Twain's birth name? a. Samuel Mark Twain b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens c. Mark Twain d. Samuel Mark Langhorne Twain
4. What’s the meaning of “Mark Twain?” A cup B freedom C 12 feet D bright
5. Which is not the theme of this novel? A slavery B civil war C discrimination D companionship
6. What symbolic role does the river play? A purity B evil C death D destiny
• Huck was adopted by the Widow Douglas, a kind but stifling woman who lives with her sister, the self-righteous Miss Watson.
ReplyDelete• All is well and good until Huck’s brutish, drunken father, Pap, reappears in town and demands Huck’s money.
• The new judge in town believes in the rights of Huck’s natural father and even takes the old drunk into his own home in an attempt to reform him.
• Pap kidnaps Huck and holds him in a cabin across the river from St. Petersburg.
• Huck escapes from Pap by faking his own death, and hides on Jackson’s Island in the middle of the Mississippi River.
• After a few days on the island, he encounters Jim, one of Miss Watson’s slaves. Huck and Jim team up.
• Huck has a brief moral crisis about concealing stolen “property”—Jim, but then lies to the men and tells them that his father is on the raft suffering from smallpox.
• Huck and Jim rescue a pair of men who are being pursued by armed bandits.
• The men, clearly con artists, claim to be a displaced English duke (the duke) and the long-lost heir to the French throne (the dauphin).
• Coming into one town, they hear the story of a man, Peter Wilks, who has recently died and left much of his inheritance to his two brothers, who should be arriving from England any day.
• The duke and the dauphin enter the town pretending to be Wilks’s brothers.
• The duke and dauphin sell Jim to a local farmer.
• At the house where Jim is a prisoner, a woman greets Huck excitedly and calls him “Tom.”
• He intercepts Tom, and Tom pretends to be his own younger brother, Sid.
• Jim is freed, but a pursuer shoots Tom in the leg. Huck is forced to get a doctor, and Jim sacrifices his freedom to nurse Tom.
• Tom reveals that Jim has actually been a free man all along.
• Aunt Sally then steps in and offers to adopt Huck, but Huck, who has had enough “civilizing,” announces his plan to set out for the West.
1. One of the most famous books written by "Mark Twain " is called:
ReplyDeletea. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
b. The Adventures of Huckleberry Sawyer
c. The Adventures of Tom and Huck Finn
2. What was Mark Twain's profession?
a. Composer
b. Musician
c. Writer
d. Painter
3. What was Mark Twain's birth name?
a. Samuel Mark Twain
b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
c. Mark Twain
d. Samuel Mark Langhorne Twain
4. What’s the meaning of “Mark Twain?”
A cup
B freedom
C 12 feet
D bright
5. Which is not the theme of this novel?
A slavery
B civil war
C discrimination
D companionship
6. What symbolic role does the river play?
A purity
B evil
C death
D destiny
sorry everyone, the answer to the first question is A!!!
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