STUDY FOR TEST

Learning OBJECTIVES:

By the end of the novel students will be able to

1)    Define realism, satire, dialect, antihero, unreliable narrator, irony (situational, dramatic, and verbal), episodic plot, romanticism, dramatic foils, hyperbole, motif, picaresque novel, parable, sarcasm, simile, metaphor, oxymoron, allegory, euphemism, bildungroman

2)    Pick out examples of symbols, irony and dialect

3)    Example the meaning of at least one major symbol

4)    Discuss how Huck is both an unreliable narrator and an antihero

5)    Discuss how Huckleberry Finn, the novel, fits both a bildungsroman and picaresque novel

6)    Give examples of and discuss the following motifs in the book: superstition, parodies of previous literature (romantic novels and Shakespeare), the adopting of personas (or reinventing self), childhood games, religion, lies and cons, death, and perhaps one or two others that I will bring up in class

7)    Be out to pick out and example five – ten allusions

8)    Outline the plot according to the six elements

9)    Break up the book into three sections or three movements (and briefly explain each movement)

10) Break up the book into 9 episodes

11) Give a list of characters in the book with a brief description of each and their general purpose in the novel

12) Compare and Contrast Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer

13) Discuss the idea of and the historical reference of Family Feuds

14) Discuss the different types of conflict found in Huckleberry Finn

15) Discuss how Mark Twain uses allusions to back up his major themes and develop his characters

16)   Keep a list of Huckleberry Finns stories and pranks

17) Discuss how Huckleberry Finn is honest in dishonest world

18) Briefly explain the following themes: Racism and Slavery, Intellectual and Moral Education, The hypocrisy of society (appearance vs. reality), conflict between the individual and society, the quest for freedom (both freedom away from society and freedom within society), superstition vs religion, death and rebirth, coming of age and the hero’s journey, the concept of family, the role of the outsider, the nature and the significance of the following traits: gullibility, ignorance, and naivety, tolerance vs. prejudice.  

 

HUCKLEBERRY FINN TEST

Each question is worth 10 points.  120 points total

1)    Give two examples of the occurrence of Moses in the book and briefly discuss how it represents a main idea (or theme) of the novel.

2)    Give at least five examples of death (or the mentioning of death) and how these examples fit the theme of DEATH and REBIRTH.

3)    Give three examples of scenes that fit the individual vs. society theme and explain why they fit this theme.

4)    List the inciting event and the climax of the novel.

5)    List 7 or 8 episodes and give four events from each.

6)    For the following characters list what they did or why they are important in the novel.

King (the late Dauphin)

Duke of Bridgewater (or Bilgewater)

Ben Rogers

Judith Loftus

Colonel Sherburn

Harvey Wilks

7)    List three literary allusions in Huck Finn (please don’t use an author more than once)

8)    List four ironies in the book.

9-12) Name the speaker of the following quotes and briefly discuss the significance of the quote:

“Here was this nigger, which I had as good as helped run away, coming right out flat-footed and saying he would steal his children—children that belonged to a man I didn’t even know; a man that hadn’t ever done me no harm”

SPEAKER:

SIGNIFICANCE:

“Is a cat a man?  Well den, dey ain’t no sense in a cat talkin’ like a man.  Is a cow a man?  Is a cow a cat?  Well den she ain’t got no business to talk like either one… Is a Frenchman a man?  Well den!  Dad blame it, why doan’ he talk like a man?”

SPEAKER:

SIGNIFCANCE”

“I’d been selling an article that takes the tartar off the teeth—an it does take it off, too, and generly the enamel along with it.”

SPEAKER:

SIGNIFICANCE:

“They call this a govment that can’t sell a free nigger till he’s been in the state six months…  Here’s a govment that calls itself a govment, and lets on to be a govment and thinks it is a govment, and yet’s got to set stock-still for six whole months before it can take a-hold of a prowling, thieving, infernal, white-shirted free nigger.”

SPEAKER:

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