English II Honors Summer Assignment
The following assignment is mandatory. It is due the first day of class in August.
Please note that it consists of several parts, each of which must be completed
thoroughly in order for us to follow up with the novel in-class.
Reading Assignment:
Active Reading:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
1. Study Guide Questions must be answered in a notebook.
Get them from me in room F-6 or on my website.
2. Keep vocabulary log of the words you look up in the
the same notebook, chapter by chapter.
Writing Assignment: Respond to the following prompt in a detailed 2-3 page
essay using MLA format (double space, heading,
margins, fonts, etc.) Make sure to support your claims with
direct evidence from the text in the form of quotations.
Writing Prompt:
Discuss the place of morality in Huckleberry Finn. In the
world of the novel, where do moral values come from?
The community? The church? One’s experiences?
Which of these potential sources does Twain privilege
over the others? Which does he mock, or describe
disapprovingly?
Remember! You are to analyze Mark Twain’s novel!
You ARE NOT to moralize on those issues.
Final Test:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn multiple-choice test.
N O T E:
This and other information related to English II Honors
can be located on RHS website.
Welcome to the course of serious fun!:)
Dr. Sergei Samborski
AP, Honors, and English IV Teacher
ssamborski@sjcoe.net
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Huck Finn questions
Chapter 1-43
(On a separate piece of paper write your answers in complete sentences. Some
answers may be longer than others. Due the first day of school.)
Chapter 1
1. With whom was Huck living at the beginning of the book?
2. Who is the narrator of the book?
3. What relation is Miss Watson to the Widow Douglas?
4. Who takes care of Huck and Tom’s money?
5. Who was waiting for Huck Finn after midnight?
Chapter 2
6. To whom did Jim belong?
7. Who did Jim sat gave him the ‘five-center piece’ he wore around his neck?
8. Who was called a cry-baby?
9. What was the “line of business” of the gang?
10. Who was elected Second Captain over ‘Tom Sawyer’s Gang?’
Chapter 3
11. Why did Huck get a good ‘going-over?’
12. How did Huck know that his ‘Pap’ wasn’t drowned?
Chapter 4
13. Where di Jim get his hairball?
14. What made Huck suspect Pap was back?
15. Who is Pap?
16. Where is Pap at the end of the chapter?
Chapter 5
17. How did Huck’s unexpected visitor get in the room?
18. What did Pap trade his new coat for?
19. What did the judge recon a body would need to reform Pap?
Chapter 6
20. What did Pap get every time he got money?
21. What object did Huck use to escape the cabin?
22. Why does Pap not vote?
Chapter 7
23. For what did Huck dive in the water?
24. What did Huck drop “so as to look like it had been done by accident?”
25. What was Huck’s destination once he was in the canoe?
Chapter 8
26. Why was the ferry-boat firing the cannon?
27. How long is Jackson Island?
28. What did Huck find that made his “heart jump up amongst his lungs?”
29. Why was Jim afraid of Huck?
30. Why didn’t Huck believe that bees didn’t sting idiots?
Chapter 9
31. How wide was the island?
32. What did Jim sat that the little birds said?
33. Were they right?
34. How did the man in the house die?
Chapter 10
35. What did Huck and Jim find sewed up in the lining of an old blanket overcoat?
36. After Jim got bit by the rattlesnake, what did he have Huck do with the rattles?
37. Why does Huck think that Jim bit by the snake?
38. What two objects did they find in the stomach of the catfish?
Chapter 11
39. Who is Sarah Williams?
40. Where is Sarah from?
41. What three ways did Mrs. Loftus ascertain Sarah’s true gender?
Chapter 12
42. What is a tow-head?
43. What two items did Huck and Jim decide to NOT “borrow?”
44. According to Huck Finn, how much do steamboat captains make per month?
Chapter 13
45. What’s the name of the wreck?
46. According to Huck Finn. How many wives did Solomon have?
Chapter 14
47. How many boxes of cigars did Huck and Jim get from the ferry-boat?
48. How did Louis the XVI die?
Chapter 15
49. Where did Huck lose the raft?
Chapter 16
50. What town were Huck and Jim looking for?
51. Why was Huck miserable?
52. How did the raft get destroyed?
Chapter 17
53. What was Huck’s pseudonym?
54. How did Huck find out his pseudonym?
55. How did Stephen Dowling Bots die?
Chapter 18
56. Who was Col. Grangerford’s oldest son?
57. At what time was Miss Sophia supposed to have her rendezvous?
58. With whom did Sophia Grangerford run off with?
Chapter 19
59. Who wouldn’t say, “Dern the fog”?
60. The two men said that they were really…
Chapter 20
61. How old was the imaginary boy named Ike?
Chapter 21
1. The duke recites a distorted version of Hamlet’s “To be of not to be” soliloquy.
Research and explain what a “soliloquy is.”
2. Research and explain what Hamlet is contemplating in his “To be or not to be”
soliloquy.
3. Explain why Boggs is so upset at Col. Sherburn, enough that he wants to kill
him.
4. Explain why it is unjustified that Col. Sherburn kills Boggs.
Chapter 22
5. Explain what Col. Sherburn means when he says, “The average man’s coward.”
6. Explain where Col. Sherburn says “mobs” “borrow” their power from.
Chapter 23
7. Explain how what Jim does “often” for Huck may be seen as fatherly.
8. Explain what Huck is surprised about that Jim does.
9. Explain how a reader could find Jim more sympathetic because of it.
10. Explain what Jim did to ‘Lizabeth.
11. Explain Jim’s reaction to this that could cause the reader to be more
sympathetic.
Chapter 24
12. Explain the fraud that the king and the duke are going to perpetrate.
13 Explain Huck’s reaction to this evil he witnesses.
Chapter 25
14. Explain what Huck initially thinks about Mary Jane.
Chapter 26
15. Besides her beauty, explains another aspect of Mary Jane that Huck finds
attractive.
16. Explain Huck’s attitude about his part in the fraud. In other words, explain why
he is upset by it so much.
17. Explain what Huck plans to do to help the girls.
Chapter 27
18. Explain where Huck ultimately hides the money.
19. Explain what Twain points out as horrible in the sale of the slave families.
Chapter 28
20. Explain why Huck was doing in the tavern that he doctor said Huck wasn’t too
good at.
21. Explain the memory that causes Huck’s eyes to “water a little.”
22. Explain what Huck means when he says that Mary Jane had “grit” and was
“full of sand.”
Chapter 29
23. Explain what Huck was doing in the tavern that the doctor said Huck wasn’t
too good at.
24. Explain how the doctor is going to prove that the king and duke are frauds.
(What do they have to do?)
25. Once this didn’t fully work, explain what the next test for the kin to pass
is…and, what his answer is.
Chapter 30
26. Explain the lie Huck told to the king back on the raft.
Chapter 31
27. The king and duke give a “lecture” on temperance. Explain what temperance is.
28. Explain Huck’s reaction to Jim’s disappearance.
29. Explain how much Jim is sold for, and what the dollars are called.
30. Give an example how much Jim sold for, and what the dollars are called.
31. Explain why Huck thinks he’ll “go to hell” for not turning Jim in.
Chapter 32
32. Explain what “Providence” is by the way Huck used it.
33. Explain what Huck discovers that Providence has been doing for him “all
along.”
34. Explain whom Aunt Sally mistakes Huck for.
35. Explain Aunt Sally’s response to Huck’s telling her that a “nigger” was killed
on the boat.
Chapter 33
36. Explain why Huck is so impressed with Tom Sawyer.
37. Explain whom Tom Sawyer pretends to be.
Chapter 34
38. Explain how Tom figured out that Jim was there.
39. Explain what it is the Huck can’t figure out about Tom.
Chapter 35
40. From the previous chapter and this one, explain why Time Sawyer is frustrated
about rescuing Jim.
41 Explain what little Jim would have to do to escape.
42. Explain how Jim is supposed to keep a journal. (What is his paper and what is
his ink?)
Chapter 36
43. Explain why Tom give up his first (37-year) plan to free Jim so easily.
44. Explain why Uncle Silas visits Jim in the shed every day of two.
45. Although Jim doesn’t see the sense in Tom’s plan, explain why he’ll go along
with it.
Chapter 37
46. Explain how Huck and tome burn themselves.
Chapter 38
47. Explain why Tom thinks Jim should have a rattlesnake.
48. Explain how Jim is supposed to water his flower.
Chapter 39
49. Explain the three things Jim shares his bed with.
50. Explain how long Jim has been kept in captivity working on his escape.
51. Explain what it is called when a prisoner of style escapes.
Chapter 40
52. Explain how Jim is dressed during the escape.
53. Explain who gets shot and where.
54. Explain why Huck thinks Jim is “white inside”
Chapter 41
55. Explain why Old Mrs. Hotchkiss thinks that Jim is crazy.
56. Explain why Huck wouldn’t see about Tom, not for kingdoms.
Chapter 42
57. Explain how Jim was faithful and risked his freedom.
58. Explain what Tom has known about Jim all along to help Jim.
59. Explain Tom’s reason for putting Jim through the escape plan.
60. Explain what Huck finally understands about Tom.
Chapter 43
61. Explain Tom’s future plans for Jim.
62. Explain the prediction that has come true for Jim.
63. Explain where Huck is going at the end of the story.
64. Explain why Huck is going there.