Huckleberry Finn—Representative Quotes
Name__________________
2/24/12-Write the names below into the blanks following the questions. You may use the names
more than once. You will not use all of the names.
Huck
Tom
Judge Thatcher
Jim
Widow Douglass
Buck Grangerford
Miss Watson
Pap
Boggs
King
Duke
Colonel Sherburn
Miss Mary Jane Wilks
Miss Sophia Grangerford
Aunt Sally
Silas Phelps
1.”It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. . . . he took it and put it out at interest,
and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round—more than a body could tell what to do
with” (1). Who is “he”?_____Judge Thatcher_________________________
2.”After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers” (2). Who
is “she”?__________Widow Douglass_________________________
3.She was “a tolerable slim old maid, with goggles on” (2). Who is “she”?____Miss
Watson_____
4.”We ain’t burglers. That ain’t no sort of style. We are highwaymen. We stop stages and
carriages on the road, with masks on, and kill the people and take their watches and money” (8).
Who is speaking?______Tom____________________
5.He said there was hundreds of soldiers there, and elephants and treasure, and so on, but we had
enemies which he called magicians, and they had turned the whole thing into an infant Sundayschool, just out of spite. I said, all right; then the thing for us to do was to go for the magicians.
Tom Sawyer said I was a numbskull” (13). Who is
“I”?_____________Huck______________________
6.”You lemme catch you fooling around that school again, you hear? Your mother couldn’t read,
and she couldn’t write, nuther, before she died. None of the family couldn’t before they died. I
can’t; and here you’re a-swelling yourself up like this. I ain’t the man to stand it—you hear?
Say, let me hear you read” (19-20).
Who is speaking?______________Pap___________________
7.“Doan’ hurt me—don’t! I hain’t ever done no harm to a ghos’. I alwuz liked dead people, en
done all I could for ‘em. You go en git in de river ag’in, whah you b’longs, en doan’ do nuffin to
[me], ‘at ‘uz alwuz yo’ fren’” (41).
Who is speaking? ______________Jim___________________
8.”It’s a dead man. Yes, indeedy; naked, too. He’s ben shot in de back. I reck’n he’s ben dead
two or three days. Come in, Huck, but doan’ look at his face—it’s too gashly” (50). Who is
being described?_______Pap___________
9.”Dat truck dah is trash; en trash is what people is dat puts dirt on de head er der fren’s en makes
‘em ashamed” (85). Who is the trash here? _________Huck________________
10.”Oh, yes, pa knows, I reckon, and some of the other old people; but they don’t know now what
the row [feud] was all about in the first place” (108).
Who is speaking?_________Buck Grangerford_______________
11.”One of the fellows was about seventy or upwards, and had a bald head and very gray
whiskers. He had an old battered-up slouch hat on, and a greasy blue woolen shirt and ragged
blue jean britches stuffed into his boot tops, . . . He had an old long-tailed blue jeans coat with
slick brass buttons flung over his arm” (120).
Who is being described?______King________________________
12.”’To think I should have lived to be leading such a life, and be degraded down into such
company.’ And he begun to wipe the corner of his eye with a rag” (121)
Who is “I”?____________Duke________________________________
13.”Come out here, Sherburn! Come out and meet the man you’ve swindled. You’re the houn’
I’m after, and I’m a-gwyne to have you, too!”
Who is speaking? ________Boggs_____________________
14.”Now the thing for you to do is to droop your tails and go home and crawl in a hole. . . . Now
leave—and take your half-a-man with you”—tossing his gun up across his left arm and cocking it
when he says this” (146).
Who is speaking? _____________Colonel Sherburn--vignette__________________________
15.”I say orgies, not because it’s the common term, because it ain’t—obsequies bein’ the
common term—but because it’s the right term. Obsequies ain’t used in England no more now—
it’s gone out . . . . So, you see, funeral orgies is an open er public funeral” (168). Who is
speaking? _____________King________________
16.”Pray for me! I reckoned if she knowed me she’d take a job that was more nearer her size. But
I bet she done it, just the same—she was just that kind. She had the grit to pray for Judus if she
took the notion—there warn’t no back-down to her, I judge. You may say what you want to, but
in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of
sand” (191). Who is “she”?______Mary Jane Wilks—“sand” = guts, bakebone_____________
17.”All right, then, I’ll go to hell” (214). Who is speaking?_____Huck_______________
18.”And here comes the white woman running from the house, about forty-five or fifty year old, bareheaded, and her spinning-stick in her hand; and behind her comes her little white children, acting the same
way the little [black] children was going. She was smiling all over so she could hardly stand—and says,
‘It’s you, at last! aint’ it?’” (219-20). Who is being described? Who speaks?__Aunt Sally Phelps__in
Arkansas_
19.”They was all over tar and feathers, and didn’t look like nothing in the world that was human—just
looked like a couple of monstrous big soldier-plumes. Well, it made me sick to see it; and I was sorry for
them poor pitiful rascals, it seemed like I couldn’t ever feel any hardness against them any more in the
world. It was a dreadful thing to see. Human being can be awful cruel to one another” (230).
What specific people are being described? _____King____________and______Duke_____________
20.”I k’n stan’ dem, Mars Tom, I’s willin’ to tackle mos’ anything ‘at ain’t onreasonabale, but ef you en
Huck fetches a rattlesnake in heah for me to tame, I’s gwyne to leave, dat’s shore” (261). Who is
speaking? _________Jim______________
21.”But I reckon I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to
adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before” (293). Who is
speaking?____________Huck_________________