Author’s Craft Characters Episodes Themes Plot

Characters – 10 Points QUESTION: Who is the narrator of the story? ANSWER: Huck Finn

Characters – 20 Points QUESTION: Who are the con men that go town to town trying to make money with a variety of tricks? ANSWER: The King and the Duke

Characters – 30 Points QUESTION: Who teaches Huck about religion, prayer, the good place, and the bad place? ANSWER: Widow Douglas

Characters – 40 Points QUESTION: Who befriends Huck but is shot due to a feud? ANSWER: Buck Grangerford

Characters – 50 Points QUESTION: Who wants to adopt Huck at the end of the novel? ANSWER: Sally Phelps (Tom’s Aunt Sally)

Episodes – 10 Points QUESTION: “Yes—right smart chance of funerals. But they don’t always kill. Pa’s got a few buck-shot in him; but he don’t mind it ‘cuz he don’t weigh much anyway. Bob’s been carved up some with a bowie, and Tom’s been hurt once or twice.” ANSWER: Shepherdsons and Grangerfords

Episodes – 20 Points QUESTION: The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn’t stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable. So I went back. ANSWER: Huck in Society – beginning sequence

Episodes – 30 Points QUESTION: Tom told me what his plan was, and I see in a minute it was worth fifteen of mine for style, and would make Jim just as free a man as mine would, and maybe get us all killed besides. So I was satisfied, and said we would waltz in on it. ANSWER: Tom’s Escape Plan– the Evasion Sequence

Episodes – 40 Points QUESTION: “Do I know you? I know you clear through I was born and raised in the South, and I’ve lived in the North; so I know the average all around. The average man’s a coward.” ANSWER: Colonel Sherburn (and Boggs and the mob)

Episodes – 50 Points QUESTION: What episodes marks the climax or turning point of the novel? ANSWER: Huck’s Big Moment – when he tears up the letter to Miss Watson

Themes – 10 Points QUESTION: What is a theme!??!?!?!!?!?!?!?! ANSWER: The message an author presents regarding a central idea.

Themes – 20 Points QUESTION: What might be a theme statement for the central idea of adventure? ANSWER: Up to Ms. K

Themes – 30 Points QUESTION: What might be a theme statement for the central idea of human nature? ANSWER: Up to Ms. K

Themes – 40 Points QUESTION: What might be a theme statement for the central idea of race relations? ANSWER: Up to Ms. K

Themes – 50 Points QUESTION: How does the episodic plot structure impact theme development? ANSWER: Different episodes develop different themes in conjunction with one another so that they can build upon one another throughout the novel

Plot – 10 Points QUESTION: What is the geographical setting of HF? ANSWER: American South along the Mississippi River

Plot – 20 Points QUESTION: What is the time period Huck Finn is set it? ANSWER: ~1840 (pre-Civil War)

Plot – 30 Points QUESTION: What is the name of the ship that Huck and Jim find the three robbers on? ANSWER: Walter Scott

Plot – 40 Points QUESTION: Why does the family feud between the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons suddenly escalate? ANSWER: Suzzanna Grangerford runs away to elope with Harney Shepherdson

Plot – 50 Points QUESTION: What does Huck plan on doing at the end of the novel? Why? ANSWER: Heading out for “the Territory” because he’s had enough of society

Author’s Craft – 10 Points QUESTION: Keeping in mind the context of when it was written, what was Mark Twain’s PURPOSE for writing HF? ANSWER: To provide a SOCIAL COMMENTARY

Author’s Craft – 20 Points QUESTION: WHAT is the point of view Twain uses to tell the story and WHY? ANSWER: 1 st person and because it allows him to comment on society as it actually is

Author’s Craft – 30 Points QUESTION: What is one reason why Twain might use an episodic plot structure? ANSWER: To focus on different aspects/flaws of society; to contrast being in society with being out of society; to let themes interact and build upon one another; to allow the text to potentially be serialized

Author’s Craft – 40 Points QUESTION: How do setting and p.o.v. impact word choice? ANSWER: Huck is uneducated and cannot read and write very well. Because they are in the South before the Civil War, several different dialects (including the slave dialect) are presented.

Author’s Craft – 50 Points QUESTION: What is the tone of HF? ANSWER: Satirical – uses humor, irony, exaggeration to expose societal faults