he Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain1 You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly--Tom's Aunt Polly, she is--and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.2 Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece--all gold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round --more than a body could tell what to do with. The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable. So I went back.Question 1The author's choice to have Huckleberry Finn narrate his own storyResponsesA lends the work a dark and serious tone.lends the work a dark and serious tone.B lends the work a captivating, tense tone.lends the work a captivating, tense tone.C lends the work a surprisingly hostile tone.lends the work a surprisingly hostile tone.D lends the work an informal, lighthearted tone.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark Twain (adapted excerpt)Judge Thatcher hoped to see Tom a great lawyer or a great soldier some day. He said he meant to look to it that Tom should be admitted to the National Military Academy and afterward trained in the best law school in the country, in order that he might be ready for either career or both.Huck Finn's wealth and the fact that he was now under the Widow Douglas' protection introduced him into society—no, dragged him into it, hurled him into it—and his sufferings were almost more than he could bear. The widow's servants kept him clean and neat, combed and brushed, and they bedded him nightly in unsympathetic sheets that had not one little spot or stain which he could press to his heart and know for a friend. He had to eat with a knife and fork; he had to use napkin, cup, and plate; he had to learn; he had to talk so properly that speech was become insipid in his mouth; the bars and shackles of civilization shut him in and bound him hand and foot.1Select the correct answer.What theme does the excerpt most clearly reflect? A. It reflects the theme of innocence and the joys of being a child. B. It reflects the theme of isolation and lack of social connections. C. It reflects the theme of childhood expectations and their impact on future choices. D. It reflects the theme of conflict between individual freedom and social expectations.

From Twain's behavior when the Captain confronts him about what he has done to Brown, you can infer that Twain

What does the Captain do when he learns that Twain attacked Brown?

. What is the setting of this passage by Mark Twain?The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnThe river went on rising and rising, for ten or twelve days. The water was three or four feet deep in the low places on the island. Daytimes we paddled all over the island in the canoe. We went winding in and out among the trees. In some places the vines hung so thick we had to back out and go some other way.a raftthe roadthe rivera canoe

by Charles Dickens (excerpt)And then I told Joe that I felt very miserable, and that I hadn't been able to explain myself to Mrs. Joe and Pumblechook, who were so rude to me, and that there had been a beautiful young lady at Miss Havisham's who was dreadfully proud, and that she had said I was common, and that I knew I was common, and that I wished I was not common, and that the lies had come of it somehow, though I didn't know how.This was a case of metaphysics, at least as difficult for Joe to deal with as for me. But Joe took the case altogether out of the region of metaphysics, and by that means vanquished it."There's one thing you may be sure of, Pip," said Joe, after some rumination, "namely, that lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, and work round to the same. Don't you tell no more of 'em, Pip. That ain't the way to get out of being common, old chap. And as to being common, I don't make it out at all clear. You are oncommon in some things. You're oncommon small. Likewise you're a oncommon scholar."No, I am ignorant and backward, Joe.""Why, see what a letter you wrote last night! Wrote in print even! I've seen letters—Ah! and from gentlefolks!—that I'll swear weren't wrote in print," said Joe."I have learnt next to nothing, Joe. You think much of me. It's only that.""Well, Pip," said Joe, "be it so or be it son't, you must be a common scholar afore you can be a oncommon one, I should hope! The king upon his throne, with his crown upon his ed, can't sit and write his acts of Parliament in print, without having begun, when he were a unpromoted Prince, with the alphabet.—Ah!" added Joe, with a shake of the head that was full of meaning, "and begun at A too, and worked his way to Z. And I know what that is to do, though I can't say I've exactly done it."There was some hope in this piece of wisdom, and it rather encouraged me.10Select the correct answer.How does Pip’s interaction with Joe develop the theme of perseverance in the excerpt? A. At the beginning, Pip feels mournful, but by the end he feels joyous. B. At the beginning, Pip feels resentful, but by the end he feels satisfied. C. At the beginning, Pip feels isolated but by the end he feels accepted. D. At the beginning, Pip feels blue, but by the end he feels optimistic.Reset