Huckleberry Finn ~ Chapters 8-11 Your responses should be in complete sentences. 1. What purpose(s) does Huck's death serve? Name ________________________________ 2. How does Huck meet Jim on Jackson's Island? Why is Jim there? 3. What is in the two story house that floats by? 4. Give three examples of Man vs. Society in this section. a. b. c. 5. How are the townspeople superstitious? Jim? Huck? Give examples. 6. Compare/contrast Huck & Jim. HUCK JIM 7. Why does Huck dress as a girl to go ashore? Why does he go? What does he find out? 8. How do you know Huck and Jim are friends by the end of Chapter XI? Vocabulary Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and think about what underlined word might mean. Look up the word in the dictionary and write down the definition (if there is more than one mean listed, select the one that is used in the sentence). 9. Well, then I happened to think how they always put quicksilver in loaves of bread and float them off... _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ 10. When they got abreast the head of the island they quit shooting... _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ 11. When I got to camp I warn't feeling very brash... _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ 12. When breakfast was ready we lolled on the grass... _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ 13. People will call me a low-down abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum... _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ 14. "What did you speculate in, Jim?" _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________