The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - ch36-38

Put these events in the proper order.

• After a few hours, they realize they need better tools.

• Tom and Huck try to use the case-knives to dig a tunnel under the cabin.

• The next night, Tom and Huck easily dig into Jim's cabin and wake him.

• Tom decides they will use pick-axes and shovels.

Which statement is false?

• Jim listens to Tom's plans.

• Jim agrees to go along with Tom's plans.

• Jim thinks Tom's plan makes good sense.

• Tom assures Jim they will change the plans immediately if something goes wrong.

What do the boys begin smuggling?

• "escape" tools

• milk & cookies

• bed sheets

• books

• money

Who notices that items are missing from her house?

• Aunt Polly

• Aunt Sally

• Uncle Tom

• Mary Jane

How do Tom and Huck confuse Aunt Sally?

• continually take and replace sheets and spoons

• make her forget how many items she had to start with

• both of these

• neither of these

Tom instructs Jim to make marks on these and throw them out the window.

• tin plates

• porcelain cups

• copper spoons

• silver knives

Tom continues to find new distractions for Jim's escape. Tom writes down some inscriptions for Jim to carve into the wall but then realizes the walls are ________.

• plaster

• straw

• brick

• wooden

To be done properly and according to the books, Tom says they must have stone. Which statement is true?

• Tom tries to roll a marble stone into the cabin, but he is not strong enough.

• Huck objects to Tom's farce.

• Huck recalls seeing a suitable stone near the river and says he will fetch it.

• Jim climbs out of the cabin and helps the boys roll the grindstone.

Despite Jim's protests, Tom decides that the cabin needs these other residents to make it a proper dungeon and Jim a proper prisoner.

• an alligator

• snakes

• spiders

• moths

• cats

In Chapters 36 through 38, the novel slips further into the farce and is filled with irony.

• Huck and Jim view Tom as a representative of society and education

• Huck and Tom feel that Tom must know the best way for them to escape.

• Neither Huck nor Jim understand why they must perform all of these ludicrous acts before Jim can escape.

• all of these

• none of these