English Semester Final

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  1. When is the first time Huck tells the truth?
    When he explains the whole plot to Mary Jane Wilks and askes her to help him get rud of the two frauds
  2. Who is the hero at the end of the book?
    Jim
  3. What is a picaresque novel?
    a book that follows the wanderings of a rogue, or picaro
  4. What does Twain never sermonize about in the novel?
    Slavery
  5. What is the reason Huck would lie to get out of a situation?
    it was the easiest way
  6. The is the Kings's interpretation of Hamlet's soliloqy really?
    a parody
  7. What could Miss Watson be best described as?
    Puritanical
  8. When are the king and duke most detestable to Huck?
    When they try to cheat the wilks out of their inheritance
  9. The fog scene in which Jim and Huck are seperated is most usually interpreted as ...
    allegory
  10. who said:
    " The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is-a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers".
    Col. Sherburn.
  11. "Hain't we got all the folls in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?"
    King
  12. "Where was Moses when the candle went out?"
    Buck
  13. "But if Juliet's such a young gal, my peeled head and my white whiskers is goin' to look uncommon odd on her."
    King
  14. He was an actor, a theif, and a "con" man
    The duke
  15. He was one of the thieves whom Huck saw on the wrecked steamboat.
    Jake Packard
  16. He was tricked into spelling his guest's name.
    Buck Grangerford
  17. Pap, Miss Watson, and the Loftus search party serve in the novel as
    threshold guardians
  18. Jim is Huck's achetypal
    soul-mate
  19. Twain never uses what kind of words in his novel
    stale
  20. What are the tools of archetypal mentors
    Magic and wisdom
  21. The white fog represents what type of archetypal thing
    purity
  22. According to Joseph Campbell all the following are parts of the hero's journey except what
    resurrection
  23. When is the climax of the book
    when Huck decides not to turn in Jim to Miss Watson

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 English Semester Final
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2011-12-20 01:14:12
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