Huckleberry Finn ~ Chapters 8-11
Your responses should be in complete sentences.
1. What purpose(s) does Huck's death serve?
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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.
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5. How are the townspeople superstitious? Jim? Huck? Give examples.
6. Compare/contrast Huck & Jim.
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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...
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10. When they got abreast the head of the island they quit shooting...
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11. When I got to camp I warn't feeling very brash...
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12. When breakfast was ready we lolled on the grass...
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13. People will call me a low-down abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum...
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14. "What did you speculate in, Jim?"
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