Huckleberry Finn Packet
HReview Question Chapters 1-20 Huckleberry Finn
Chapters 1-3 1. What doesn’t Huck like about the Widow Douglas?
The fact that she makes him wear new clothes that are tight and she wont let him smoke and he had to pray before he ate his food.
2. What does Jim think has happened to him as a result of the trick that Tom plays on him?
Jim was sleeping when they snuck out, so Tom played a trick by placing his hat on the branch above his head; when Jim woke up, he told everyone that a witch flew him all over town and then placed his hat up there.
3. How does Huck know the drowned body that was found is not his Pap?
Huck says that a man would float on his back, and not on his face, unlike that drowned person. 4. When Tom’s gang raids the “Spanish merchants and rich Arabs” what is it that they actually do?
They interrupted a Sunday-school picnic, and stole the food.
5. Where does Miss Watson take Huck to pray?
Miss Watson takes Huck to pray in a closet.
6. How would you compare the characters of the Widow Douglas and Miss Watson? Who seems to be presented in a more favorable way? Why do you think so?
Miss Watson is more lenient than the Widow and cares less about rule than the Widow, though she cares a lot about it. She is more favorable since if on is in her supervision, it would be far better than the widow’s.
7. How does Huck respond to Miss Watson’s admonitions to pray? What does this tell us about Huck?
Huck says he can’t get what he prays for. This shows that he is young and superstitious in an innocent way
8. How would you characterize Huck’s self-image at this point in the novel? His self-image is very young, rude, sly, and playful.
9. Why is the time period in which the novel set important?
The time period is before the Civil War; Mark Twain said the setting was before the publication of the book by about 50 years. It’s important because the Civil War is a war about slavery and Jim in the book is a black slave,
Chapters 1-3 1. What doesn’t Huck like about the Widow Douglas?
The fact that she makes him wear new clothes that are tight and she wont let him smoke and he had to pray before he ate his food.
2. What does Jim think has happened to him as a result of the trick that Tom plays on him?
Jim was sleeping when they snuck out, so Tom played a trick by placing his hat on the branch above his head; when Jim woke up, he told everyone that a witch flew him all over town and then placed his hat up there.
3. How does Huck know the drowned body that was found is not his Pap?
Huck says that a man would float on his back, and not on his face, unlike that drowned person. 4. When Tom’s gang raids the “Spanish merchants and rich Arabs” what is it that they actually do?
They interrupted a Sunday-school picnic, and stole the food.
5. Where does Miss Watson take Huck to pray?
Miss Watson takes Huck to pray in a closet.
6. How would you compare the characters of the Widow Douglas and Miss Watson? Who seems to be presented in a more favorable way? Why do you think so?
Miss Watson is more lenient than the Widow and cares less about rule than the Widow, though she cares a lot about it. She is more favorable since if on is in her supervision, it would be far better than the widow’s.
7. How does Huck respond to Miss Watson’s admonitions to pray? What does this tell us about Huck?
Huck says he can’t get what he prays for. This shows that he is young and superstitious in an innocent way
8. How would you characterize Huck’s self-image at this point in the novel? His self-image is very young, rude, sly, and playful.
9. Why is the time period in which the novel set important?
The time period is before the Civil War; Mark Twain said the setting was before the publication of the book by about 50 years. It’s important because the Civil War is a war about slavery and Jim in the book is a black slave,