The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, CHAPTER 7 quiz

Questions and answers

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   Question 1. What does Huck find drifting on the rising Mississippi River?

   • A wooden raft with nine logs
   • Correct answer: A thirteen- or fourteen-foot canoe
   • A skiff with oars
   • A barrel of supplies

   Huck spots a drift-canoe, about thirteen or fourteen foot long, riding high like a duck on the rising river. He swims out and claims it.

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   Question 2. Why does Pap leave the cabin and lock Huck inside?

   • To go hunting in the woods
   • Correct answer: To sell a nine-log raft in town
   • To buy more whisky at the tavern
   • To report the prowling intruder

   Pap locks Huck in the cabin and takes the skiff to tow a nine-log raft to town to sell, giving Huck the opportunity to escape.

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   Question 3. How does Huck escape from the locked cabin?

   • He picks the lock with a fishhook
   • He climbs through a window
   • Correct answer: He saws through a log in the wall
   • He smashes the door with an axe

   Huck uses his old saw to cut through a log in the cabin wall, a hole he had been working on previously. He smashes the door afterward as part of his murder staging.

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   Question 4. What animal does Huck kill to stage his fake murder?

   • A deer
   • Correct answer: A wild pig
   • A turkey
   • A stray dog

   Huck shoots a wild pig in the woods, brings it to the cabin, hacks its throat with an axe, and uses its blood to create a convincing murder scene.

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   Question 5. What does Huck drag to the river to simulate a body being disposed of?

   • The pig wrapped in a blanket
   • Correct answer: A sack filled with big rocks
   • A log the same size as himself
   • His old clothes stuffed with straw

   Huck fills an old sack with rocks, drags it from the cabin to the river, and dumps it in. The drag marks make it look like someone hauled a body to the water.

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   Question 6. Why does Huck create a meal-sack trail leading to the shallow lake?

   • To feed the ducks living there
   • To mark the path so he can return later
   • Correct answer: To mislead searchers into thinking robbers fled that direction
   • To attract wild animals away from the cabin

   Huck rips a hole in the meal sack and lets cornmeal sift out as he walks to the lake, creating a false trail. He expects searchers will follow it and look for the robbers who supposedly killed him.

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   Question 7. Where does Huck go at the end of Chapter 7?

   • St. Petersburg
   • Cairo, Illinois
   • Correct answer: Jackson's Island
   • The Widow Douglas's house

   Huck paddles to Jackson's Island, a heavily timbered island in the middle of the river. He chooses it because he knows it well and nobody ever visits.

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   Question 8. Who passes Huck's hiding spot while he waits under the willows at nightfall?

   • The Widow Douglas
   • Tom Sawyer
   • Judge Thatcher
   • Correct answer: Pap

   Pap returns sober in a skiff, passing so close that Huck could have reached out with his gun and touched him, but Pap does not notice Huck hidden under the willow branches.

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   Question 9. Which of these events actually happened in this chapter?

   • Huck tells Pap about finding the canoe on the river.

     Didn't happen

     Huck hides the canoe from Pap in a vine-covered creek. He initially thinks about showing Pap because it is worth ten dollars, but then decides to keep it hidden as his means of escape.

   • Huck pulls out some of his own hair and sticks it on the bloodied axe.

     Happened

     As part of his elaborate staged murder, Huck pulls out some of his hair, bloodies the axe, and sticks the hair on its back side to make it look like the murder weapon.

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    Question 10. In the chapter, what does "palavering" mean?

    • Fighting aggressively
    • Correct answer: Talking idly at length
    • Working hard at a task
    • Sneaking around quietly

    Pap tells Huck, "Don't stand there palavering all day." Palavering means talking in an idle, unproductive way. Pap wants Huck to stop chattering and go check the fishing lines.

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    Question 11. What is a "whetstone" as used in this chapter?

    • A type of river stone used for skipping
    • A heavy stone for anchoring boats
    • Correct answer: A fine-grained stone for sharpening blades
    • A decorative stone kept as a good-luck charm

    Huck drops Pap's whetstone near the lake to make the meal-sack trail look accidental. A whetstone is a stone used to sharpen knives, axes, and other cutting tools.

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    Question 12. What does "abreast" mean when Huck says the skiff was "abreast of me"?

    • Far ahead of him
    • Directly behind him
    • Correct answer: Side by side with him
    • Coming toward him head-on

    Abreast means alongside or at the same level. When the skiff was abreast of Huck, it was passing directly alongside his hiding place under the willows.

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