The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Quotes, some plot points

'Don't scrunch up like that, Huckleberry. Set up straight."

Miss Watson

"It was 'lection day, and I was just about to go and vote myself if I warn't too drunk to get there..."

Pap

"I reckoned he believed in the A-rabs and the elephants, but as for me, I think different."

Huck

"Say, when a cow's laying down, which end of her gets up first?"

Mrs. Judith Loftus

"Well...a feud is this way: A man has a quarrel with another man, and kills him; then that other man's brother kills him; then the other brothers on both sides. goes for one another..."

Buck Grangerford

"The idea of you lynching anybody! It's amusing."

Col. Sherburn

"Come out here and meet the man you've swindled."

Boggs

"Friends all, my poor brother that lays beyond has done generous by them that's left behind in the vale of sorrows."

King

"Why, I wouldn't take a hundred dollars for that horse now..."

Uncle Silas

"Take this six thousand dollars, and invest for me and my sisters any way you want..."

Mary Jane Wilks

"Dogs my cats ef it ain't de powerfulest dream I ever see."

Jim

"Keep your hands off me! You talk like an Englishman, don't you. It's the worst imitation I ever heard."

Dr. Robinson

"And when you throw at a rat or anything, hitch yourself up a tiptoe and fetch your hand up over your head as awkward as you can..."

Mrs. Judith Loftus

"He had a rat."

the undertaker

"It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself to go humble myself to a ******..."

Huck

"And the shirt ain't all that's gone, nuther. There's a spoon gone..."

Aunt Sally

"Yes, en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hundred dollars."

Jim

"Kill the women? No, nobody ever saw anything in the books like that."

Tom Sawyer

"I could always stay under water a minute; this time I reckon I stayed under a minute and a half."

Huck

"He had an uncommon level head for a ******."

Huck

"She warn't particular; she could write about anything you choose to give he, just so it was sadful."

Emmeline Grangerford

"He was saying how the first thing he would do...he would buy his wife."

Jim

"She run off in de night some time...to get married..."

Miss Sophia Grangerford

"The best naturedest old fool in Arkansaw..."

Boggs

"She pulled Huck in and shut the door; then she looked in the Testament till she found the paper..."

Miss Sophia Grangerford

"Sick Arab - but harmless when not out of his head."

Jim

"He was the softest, glidingist, stealthiest, man I ever see; and there warn't no more smile to him than there is to a ham."

the undertaker

"He looked about as old as me - thirteen or fourteen or along there, though he was little bigger than me."

Buck Grangerford

"She was the best girl I ever see, and had the most sand."

Mary Jane Wilks

'When we got there, there warn't nobody stirring; streets empty, and perfectly dead and still, like Sunday."

Parkville

The city Huck and Jim pass in the fog.

Cairo

Where Huck hears two men planning to kill a third.

aboard the Walter Scott

"I hadn't seen no house out in the country before that was so nice and had so much style."

the Grangerford's

Where Huck feels "might free and easy and comfortable".

the raft

Huck always portrayed the same person throughout the book.

false

Judge Thatcher was the body found in the house floating down the river.

false

Huck is more superstitious than Tom Sawyer.

true

Tom Sawyer killed one of the Grangerfords.

false

One reason that Tom helped free Jim was because he knew Jim was already free.

true

Sherburn called Buck Harkness only 'half" a man, and the rest of them cowards.

true

Aunt Polly went along with Huck being Tom and Tom being Sid until they explained everything to Aunt Sally.

false

The people dug up Peter Wilks' grave to see if the money was there.

false

The Grangerfords thought Huck was a Shepherson when they first saw him.

true

Hines let go of Huck when they were digging up the grave because he felt sorry for him.

false

Huck didn't find out that Pap was dead until the very end of the book.

true

The people were pleased with the first performance of the Royal Nonesuch.

false

Huck keeps the slave hunters from the raft by...

getting them to think there was smallpox on board.

The climax of the Grangerford/Shepherdson feud is caused by...

Miss Sophia running off with Harney Shepherdson.

The king collects money at the camp meeting by pretending...

to be a reformed pirate.

Jim's daughter disobeys him because...

she is deaf.

Huck writes a letter to...

Miss Watson.

The king sells Jim for...

$40.00.

Trapped with a bag of gold in the Wilks' parlor, Huck...

hides it in Peter Wilks' coffin.

Jim's rescue was mixed up and splendid because...

Tom Sawyer was involved.