The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain

Jim

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The duke and the dauphin

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This novel begins with a notice that "persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot."

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This character hides a sack of gold in Peter Wilks' coffin to keep it away from two scoundrels.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

One character in this novel paints himself blue and is called a "Sick Arab."

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Two characters in this novel put on a play called The Royal Nonesuch and are nicknamed the Duke and the Dauphin.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This character witnesses a feud between the Grangerford and Shepherdson families.

Huckleberry Finn

This character runs away from home to avoid being "sivilized" by his Aunt Sally.

Huckleberry Finn

A character in this novel is repeatedly called “Bilgewater” by a man claiming to be “Looy the Seventeen”

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

In this novel, Pap’s body is discovered in a house floating in a river.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Name this novel in which the title boy rafts down the Mississippi with Jim.

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This character declares that he’ll “go to hell” before helping a friend escape the Phelps Farm.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This character begins his journey down the Mississippi River after faking his death with a pig carcass.

Huckleberry Finn

In one part of this novel, the protagonist takes clothes and goods from a house floating down a river with a dead man in it.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

A man in this novel pretends to be a preacher from London named Harvey Wilks in order to get the gold from Peter Wilks’s will.

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This character brings a Bible to Sophia, allowing her to run away with Harney, triggering a fight between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons.

Huckleberry Finn

Huck escapes down the Mississippi River with a slave with this first name.

Jim

This character rhetorically asks "does a cat talk like a cow?" when another character can't understand why the French don't understand English.

Huckleberry Finn

After an unpleasant sermon, this character declares, "I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead."

Huckleberry Finn

This character uses pig's blood and an old sack with rocks to fake his own death.

Huckleberry Finn

Before tearing up a letter that located a certain character "two miles below Pikesville," this character declares, "All right, then, I'll go to hell."

Huckleberry Finn

This character is originally under the care of the Widow Douglas.

Huckleberry Finn

In this novel, two characters hold a play called “The Royal Nonesuch” and claim to be a duke and dauphin.

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This character teams up with Sid to rescue a slave in Phelps’ plantation.

Huckleberry Finn

This character is the son of the drunkard Pap.

Huckleberry Finn

This character befriends Jim on Jackson’s Island.

Huckleberry Finn

At the beginning of this novel, the narrator refers to the handful of “stretchers” in one of the author’s previous novels.

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This character owns a prophetic hairball, and at the novel's end, his companion concludes that this man really is "white inside”.

Jim

This character is shot in the leg while escaping from Sally’s house.

Tom Sawyer

Name this literary family, whose feud with the Shepherdsons has lasted for about thirty years.

Grangerford

This character resolves to set out for Indian country after an overdrawn sequence on the Phelps' farm.

Huckleberry Finn

This character wears a five-cent piece around his neck and claims to possess a magic hairball.

Jim

The protagonist in this novel meets two conmen claiming to be the Duke of Bridgewater and the Lost Dauphin.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

In this novel, time spent on Jackson’s Island reveals the superstitious idiocy of a runaway slave named Jim.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Duke and the Dauphin claim to be brothers of Peter Wilks in this novel.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

One man in this novel gives a speech, rifle in hand, from the roof of his porch to avoid getting lynched.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

In this novel, the ghost of a baby floating in a “bar’l” down a river in a storm haunts a raft of drunken soldiers.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This character finds a companion in Sally Phelps’ household who he’d earlier lost track of in heavy fog.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This character says “alright then, I’ll go to hell” after deciding to rescue a friend from Phelps’ farm.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This unnamed conflict's origins are the subject of a book by the scholars Edgar Branch and Robert Hirst.

Grangerford-Sheperdson feud

A character in this conflict asks the narrator a riddle about where Moses was when a candle went out.

Grangerford-Sheperdson feud

One side in this conflict lives in a home in which the tacky poem "Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots" hangs from its walls.

Grangerford-Sheperdson feud

This conflict climaxes after the narrator retrieves a Bible with the message "HALF PAST TWO" written in it.

Grangerford-Sheperdson feud

The participants in this conflict listen to a church sermon about "brotherly-love" while keeping their guns between their knees.

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In this conflict, a "colonel" and his sons are killed after young Sophia elopes with Harney.

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This character’s inability to thread a needle leads Judith to realize that he is pretending to be a girl.

Huckleberry Finn

One character in the novel introduces himself as William Thompson from Ohio, a person stopping on his way to visit his uncle.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

In this novel, the melodramatic poet Emmeline Grangerford is a member of a family that feuds with the Shepherdsons.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Readers of this book are warned that "persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot."

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This character claims to be "George Jackson" while unwittingly inserting himself into a feud between the Sheperdsons and the Grangerfords.

Huckleberry Finn

This character misses a turn at Cairo (KAY-ro), leading him and his traveling companion Jim down the Mississippi River on a raft.

Huckleberry Finn

This character runs across Silas and Sally Phelps, who try to return him to his father Pap.

Huckleberry Finn

This character steals a boat to strand two robbers on board the wreck of the Walter Scott.

Huckleberry Finn

This character resolves to help a slave running away from Miss Watson to escape from St. Petersburg, Missouri.

Huckleberry Finn

This character hides a sack of gold in a coffin to protect Mary Jane Wilkes from the Duke and the Dauphin.

Huckleberry Finn

The narrator of this book states that the most popular character is an undertaker who hits a dog for causing a commotion.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn