Answers To Huckleberry Finn Study Guide

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Test Study Guide

• Huckleberry Finn Study Guide Packet
• Answers To Huckleberry Finn Study Guide 2016

Joseph AP English 11

1. The study guide questions are fact-based questions; students can find the answers to these questions right in the text. These questions come in two formats: short answer or multiple choice. The best use of these materials is probably to use the short answer version of the questions as study guides for.
2. Twain’s use of dialect, which has proved controversial over the years, lends to the overall realism and vividness of Huckleberry Finn.Because it is sometimes difficult to decipher the character’s speech while reading, we are almost forced to read aloud: at the very least, to read this novel, one has to be able to “hear” the voices in one’s own head.

Huckleberry Finn Study Guide Packet

Test Instructions: You will choose FOUR questions to answer out of several options. Each of your answers should be a meaty paragraph that follows these guidelines:

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• Answer the question specifically, thoughtfully, and creatively. Do not settle for a surface answer.
• Use more than one piece of evidence from the book to support your answer. “Evidence” may include direct quotations or specific plot points.
• Fully explain the significance of each piece of evidence that you present. Tell us what you want us to see in the examples you choose.
• Write in complete and polished (for the most part) sentences.
• Organize your answer so that each point you make connects to the rest of the answer. Essentially, you should have a mini-thesis for each answer that all of your evidence and analysis serves to support.

You will be allowed to use your book to help you on the test; be careful, however, not to let it slow you down. You should arrive at the test confident in your knowledge of the novel’s details and your own ideas about them.

Scoring:You will begin this test with 60 points. Each of your four answers may earn up to 10 points based on the quality of your answer.

Question Content: Questions will be drawn from our class discussion, activities, and your reading questions. Topics may include:

• Symbols in the book
• Huck as a narrator and cultural critic
• Twain’s rhetorical techniques
• Twain’s arguments and techniques in relation to Frederick Douglass
• Twain’s use of humor
• Naming and explaining specific arguments Twain makes
• Controversy over reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Racial commentary and stereotyping in the book
• Development of Huck and Jim over the course of the novel
• Definition of American heroism in the novel
• Tensions/contrasts in the novel: religion and superstition, “sivilization” and wilderness, fantasy and reality, society and the individual, etc.
• Ideas about justice presented in the novel
• The novel’s ideas on nature v. nurture

Answers To Huckleberry Finn Study Guide 2016

Studying: As always, you should have well-defined ideas about the novel, in terms of meaning, style, and rhetorical techniques. You should review specific characters and pieces of the plot that support your ideas and be able to explain how they function. From the list above, you can probably guess what some of the question options will be: practice writing effective answers that are centered on a mini-thesis. You may discuss the book with classmates while you prepare for the test, but your answers on the test should come from your own ideas. You should not refer to Sparknotes or other study guides for interpretations of the novel.

Answers To Huckleberry Finn Study Guide