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good ideas, which often get the boys into trouble. Huck’s
father returns to St. Petersburg and makes Huck live with
him, but Huck runs away. He meets up with Jim, who
has also run away because he doesn’t want to be a slave
anymore. Together the travel by raft down the Mississippi
to Cairo. They have lots of adventures and they meet a lot
of interesting people. Finally, Jim is captured by a farmer
and taken prisoner. Tom Sawyer arrives and he and Huck
try to plan Jim’s escape. Although the plan is not very
successful, Jim is eventually free as Widow Douglas gave
him his freedom before she died. Huck stays with Aunt
Sally, but is planning to run away again as he doesn’t want
to be taught to be polite.
About the author
Chapters 1–2: Huck doesn’t want to live with Widow
Douglas and runs away. Tom persuades him to go back
so that he can be in a gang of robbers he is going to start.
They sign their names in blood, but it’s only a game. The
Widow sends Huck to school and one day on the way, he
sees his father’s footprint in the snow. He is afraid of his
father and worried about some gold he has given to the
judge for safe keeping. The judge buys Huck’s gold from
him. In the spring, Huck’s father takes him to live in a
cabin and sometimes hits him. So Huck escapes down the
river in a canoe.
Mark Twain’s real name was Samuel Clemens and he
was born in Florida, USA, in 1835. In 1839, his family
moved to Hannibal, Missouri, a town on the Mississippi
River, where young Sam experienced the excitement
and colorful sights of the waterfront. Hannibal, and the
variety of people Clemens met there, feature widely in
many of his books, particularly The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(1884). In these books, the name of his hometown is
changed to St. Petersburg.
Clemens had some schooling, but became a printer’s
apprentice when his father died in 1847. He left Hannibal
to travel in 1853 and decided he wanted to be a riverboat
pilot. So he began working on the steamboats on the
Mississippi. In 1861, the American Civil war stopped river
traffic and he moved to Nevada. After an unsuccessful
attempt at gold and silver mining, he started work for
a newspaper, writing under the pen name Mark Twain.
Clemens wrote his first popular story The Celebrated
Jumping Frog of Calaveras County in 1865 and continued
to work as a correspondent for various newspapers,
traveling all over the United States and Europe. Between
1873 and 1889 he wrote seven novels. His best books
are considered to be the skillful re-creations of American
life in the period of his youth. Clemens died in 1910,
but Mark Twain is still remembered as one of America’s
greatest writers.
Summary
Huckleberry Finn, known as Huck to his friends, lives
with Widow Douglas in St. Petersburg, Missouri. His best
friends are Tom Sawyer and Jim, the Widow’s black slave.
Huck likes Tom because he is very smart and has lots of
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Chapters 3–5: Huck paddles as far as Jackson Island and
sees a steamboat and people looking for him. They think
he is dead. Then Huck meets Jim, who has run away too.
One day, they see a big house coming down the river.
Inside, there is a dead man. They take some things from
the boat and Huck finds $8 in a coat pocket. He decides
to go into town, but dresses as a girl so that nobody will
recognize him. He goes first to a woman’s house and she
talks about how people are going to go to find Jim that
night. Huck goes to get Jim and they go down the river
on a raft.
Chapters 6 –7: Huck and Jim travel down the river at
night because it’s safer. One night they see an old broken
steamboat. Huck looks inside and sees a man with a gun
who is going to kill another man. Huck and Jim steal
the men’s boat and get help. The next night, Huck and
Jim get lost in the fog and they can’t find each other. The
following night, two men with guns approach their raft,
looking for Jim. Huck convinces them that he is with his
sick father. The men are afraid and go away. The following
night, a steamboat hits the raft and destroys it. Huck is
convinced that Jim is dead.
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Chapters 8–10: Huck finds Jim, who has a new raft
and they continue down the river. They meet two men,
who say they are a king and a duke. The king organizes
a theater show in the next town and many people pay
money to see him. The show is very bad and the people
are angry, but the king and duke are happy because they
have made a lot of money. Next, the king and duke
pretend to be the brothers of a man who has just died and
left a lot of money in his will. They try to trick the man’s
daughters out of the money and their home, but Huck is
unhappy about this and helps them.
banned it when it was first published because they thought
it was racist. Twain, however, uses his book to attack
racism. Until 1861, people in the United States could buy
slaves, black men, women and children from Africa, to
work on their farms. They were given food and a place to
sleep but they were not paid and usually had an extremely
difficult life. Above all, they were not free. Some states,
particularly in the north, did not agree with slavery. These
were called free states. In the story, Jim is trying to get to a
free state. Slavery was finally abolished after the American
Civil War.
Chapters 11–12: Jim is captured by Mr. Phelps and taken
prisoner at his farm. Huck goes to the farm and Aunt Sally
thinks that Huck is actually Tom Sawyer. Huck pretends
to go into town to get his bags and meets Tom on his
way to the farm. At first, Tom thinks Huck is a ghost, but
when Huck explains all about his adventures, they decide
to help Jim to escape together. Tom pretends to be Sid
Sawyer and they begin planning the escape. Huck suggests
stealing the key, but Tom wants to do it the difficult way,
like in the stories he has read.
Society and social rules: This book is humorous, but
it has a serious message. Twain was trying to point out
the cruelty and injustice of society at his time. He does
this through Huck, a kind boy who is curious about life
and feels uncomfortable living according to accepted
social rules. He prefers the freedom of living on the river.
Rejecting his cruel father, he finds true friendship with
Jim and he realizes that this is more important than social
standards. He also shows how sometimes you have to put
yourself at risk to save those you care about.
Chapters 13–14: Huck and Tom continue with the
escape plans, making things more difficult by writing a
letter to warn people that a gang of robbers is coming to
steal the slave. A lot of farmers with guns gather at the
farm. During the escape, Tom is shot in the leg. They
reach an island and Jim is a free man, but Tom is ill and
they need a doctor. Huck goes to get a doctor and he goes
to help Tom, but as a result, Jim is captured again. They
all go back to the farm and Tom and Huck tell everybody
the true story. Tom also tells how Widow Douglas had
freed Jim just before she died two months earlier. Jim is a
free man after all.
Background and themes
The Mississippi River: Twain recreates the American way
of life in towns along the Mississippi in the mid-1800s.
This river is the second longest in the United States,
flowing across the country from Minnesota in the north
to New Orleans in the south. Its main course is about
3,766 kilometers long. The river was very important for
trade and transportation: food, wood, and other goods
were carried along it in steamboats, small boats and even
rafts. Many different kinds of people traveled along the
river and called at the different trading towns there.
Slavery and racism: This book has always been
controversial because it deals with slavery. Some libraries
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Discussion activities
Before reading
1 Discuss: Put students in small groups and ask them
to discuss the following questions. If possible, allow
them time to look for information on the Internet.
What do you know about the United States today? What
do you know about the history of the United States?
Have you heard of the Mississippi River? Is it long or
short? Which parts of America does it pass through?
2 Pair work: Ask students to answer the following
questions in pairs, encouraging them to give reasons
for their choices.
Do you like being polite? Do you prefer wearing new
clothes or old clothes? Do you prefer sleeping in a bed in
a house or outside in the open air? Do you like reading,
writing, spelling and working with numbers? Do you
like adventures? What kind?
Get feedback from the whole class and then ask
students to look at the first picture in the book of
Huckleberry Finn. In pairs, ask them to predict what
he would answer to the questions above.
Chapters 1–2
After reading
3 Team game: Write the following characters on the
board: Huck, Tom, Widow Douglas, Jim, Pap, Judge
Thatcher. Put students in small groups and give them
5 –10 minutes to think of true sentences about these
characters without looking in the book. Then, each
group in turn has to say a true sentence about one of
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the characters. Sentences cannot be repeated. If the
sentence is right, the team scores one point. After
10 minutes, the team with the most points wins.
4 Pair work: Ask students to discuss the following
questions in pairs and then get feedback from the
whole class.
Why does Huck want everybody to think he is dead?
Do you think this is a good idea? What do you think is
going to happen to him now? What will he eat? Where
will he sleep? Will he meet anybody? Will he be in
danger?
Chapters 3 –5
While reading (at the end of p. 14)
5 Role play: Put the students in pairs. One of them
takes the role of Huck and the other takes the role of
Jim. Tell them to act out the meeting between the two
on Jackson’s Island.
Huck: Say hello and explain to Jim that you are not a
ghost. Offer him some food from your canoe. Tell Jim
why you ran away from your father’s cabin.
Jim: Tell Huck not to hurt you. Tell him you like
dead people. Explain to Huck that you are hungry.
Tell him why you ran away from Widow Douglas’s
house.
After reading
6 Write, ask and answer: Write What does Huck throw
at the rat? on the board and elicit the answer (A piece
of metal). Now tell students to write similar questions
about Chapters 3–5. Students then mingle with each
other, asking and answering each other’s questions.
Chapters 6 –7
While reading (p. 26, after “… and then they both
went back into the steamboat.”)
7 Guess: Put students in small groups and ask them to
guess what had happened to the three men before the
scene that Huck and Jim saw. Then get feedback from
the whole class.
What is the relationship between the men? What
happened before Huck and Jim arrived at the steamboat?
Why did one man want to kill the man on the floor?
What was in the big bag they put in the boat? Where did
they get the money from?
After reading
8 Discuss: Put students in small groups and ask them
to discuss their answers to the following questions.
Get feedback from the whole class.
What lies does Huck tell to the man in the boat, Jim,
and the two men with guns who came over to the boat?
Was Huck being good or bad when he told these lies?
Do you ever lie? When and why?
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Chapters 8–10
While reading (p. 46, after “I knew what they were
planning.”)
9 Discuss: Ask students to discuss in pairs what they
think the duke and the king are planning and if they
think it will work. Get feedback from the whole class.
After reading
10 Write and guess: Write Mary Jane had black hair and
a very kind face on the board. Elicit which word is
wrong from the students (She had red hair). Now
students choose a sentence from Chapters 8 –10 and
rewrite it changing one word. Students mingle,
reading out their sentences and the other students
have to identify and correct the mistake.
Chapters 11–12
While reading (p. 57, after “How could we help Jim to
escape?”)
11 Discuss: Ask the students to discuss in small groups
the different ways that Huck and Tom could help Jim
to escape. Tell them to think of other stories or films
in which a prisoner escapes and the ways in which
they did it.
After reading
12 Pair work: Write the following words on the board:
wagon, illegal, kiss, dig, shirt, rats. Have the students
talk and write in pairs to say how these words were
used in Chapter 3.
Chapters 13–14
After reading
13 Write and guess: Divide the class into small groups
of four (or less if numbers don’t allow for this).
Tell each student to look at a different illustration
from Chapters 13 –14 (pp. 62– 63, p. 65, p. 67 and
p. 69). Tell them that they have to write a description
of the illustration (what they can see and what is
happening), but make five deliberate mistakes. Then,
they read out their descriptions to the rest of the
group who have to look at the illustration and spot
the mistakes.
14 Act and guess: Put students in small groups and
have them choose one scene from the book. Students
practice miming the scene and then perform for the
rest of the class, who have to guess what is going on.
Vocabulary activities
For the Word list and vocabulary activities, go to
www.penguinreaders.com.
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While reading
Chapters 1–2
1 Match the name and the description.
The teacher Widow Douglas Tom Pap
Judge Thatcher Huck Jim
a …………………… made Huck her son and
dressed him in nice clothes.
b …………………… heard a noise and went
out into the backyard to look.
c …………………… had a secret hiding place
and started a gang.
d …………………… kept Tom and Huck’s
money safe for them.
e …………………… hit Huck for not going
to school.
f …………………… had a shoe with a small
cross on the left foot.
g …………………… liked sleeping in a bed,
but sometimes slept in the woods.
2 Put the underlined letters in the right place to
make a word.
a When the Widow saw Huck come home
again, she cried with piesnshpa …………… .
b Tom had a secret gdinhi …………… place.
c Tom said that robbers sraonm ……………
people.
d Huck saw some posnftitro …………… in the
snow in front of the house.
e Huck’s father always cedolk …………… the
door to the cabin.
f Huck loves ihngnut …………… and fishing.
Chapters 3–5
3 Underline the wrong word and put the right
one.
a Huck swam for about five miles and then he
was tired. …………………
b They were shooting a gun from a steamboat
into the sky. …………………
c Jim said that he never hurt a pig.
…………………
d It’s legal for a slave to run away.
…………………
e They found a house at the top of a big hill.
…………………
f The man on the floor of the house in the river
was asleep. …………………
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4 Answer the questions.
a What did Huck make on the island to sleep
in?
………………………………………………
b What was Jim doing when Huck found him?
………………………………………………
c When did Jim leave the Widow’s house?
………………………………………………
d Why does Jim think he is going to be rich one
day?
………………………………………………
e Why did Jim lay under a bed sheet in the
canoe?
………………………………………………
f What did Huck practice doing like a girl?
………………………………………………
Chapters 6–7
5 Match the name with what they probably
thought or said.
Huck Man on the small boat Jim
Widow Douglas Man on the steamboat
a “When your father says borrow, he means
steal.” ………………………
b “I like chicken but I don’t like apples.”
………………………
c “I don’t want to paddle to the steamboat. It’s
probably dangerous.” ………………………
d “I don’t want to die. I promise I won’t tell
anybody.” ………………………
e “Don’t worry little boy. I’ll help your family.”
………………………
6 Find words in Chapters 6–7.
a a place you can sleep outside (p. 24)
………………………
b to go under the water to the bottom of the
river or sea (p. 26) ………………………
c people from the same country often speak the
same one (p. 29) ………………………
d clever (p. 30) ………………………
e when you can see a very bright light, it is
doing this (p. 30) ………………………
f thinking about stories when you are asleep (p. 32) ………………………
g the material we get from a tree (p. 34)
………………………
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Chapters 8 –10
7 Match words from Chapters 8–10 with their
opposites.
wide
well
entrance
loudly
honest
narrow
sick
upstairs
dead
exit
carefully
take
bring
dishonest
downstairs
alive
quietly
carelessly
8 Finish the sentences.
a The king wanted Huck and Jim to go down
on one knee and…………………………… .
b The duke wrote “$200 REWARD” on
…………………………………………….. .
c The king put up a tent and inside the tent he
…………………………………………….. .
d On the third night of the play, everybody
from the town was there and they had
…………………………………………….. .
e The dead man’s brother, William, couldn’t
…………………………………………….. .
f The dead man’s letter said there was
…………………………………………….. .
Chapters 11–12
9 Number the sentences to make a story.
a c Tom said he would get Jim some rats.
b c Huck took Uncle Silas’s wagon into town.
c c Huck and the duke went into town to
find the king.
d c Huck couldn’t find Jim.
e c Tom and Huck dug a hole to help Jim
escape.
f c Huck and Tom went to town and saw
people driving the king and duke away.
g c Tom Sawyer arrived at the Phelpses’ farm.
h c Huck met Aunt Sally and she gave him a
kiss.
10 Circle the extra word in the sentences.
a The king and duke fought fighted all the
time.
b Huck said he hid hide in the woods because
he was scared of Jim.
c Aunt Sally wanted to play make a trick on her
husband.
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d Huck said he must to go to town to get his
bags.
e Tom pushed Aunt Sally away along when she
tried to kiss him.
f The king and duke were of in trouble.
g Tom thinks that escape escaping takes a long
time.
h Tom agreed that it was difficult to run
running with no feet.
Chapters 13–14
11 Write questions for the answers.
a could / Aunt Sally?
………………………………………………
Uncle Silas’s shirt.
b kind / walls / prisons?
………………………………………………
Stone ones.
c Tom and Huck / letter?
………………………………………………
To tell people that something was going to
happen.
d Huck / butter?
………………………………………………
Under his hat.
e Tom / shot?
………………………………………………
In the leg.
f Widow / before / died?
………………………………………………
She made Jim a free man.
g Tom / Jim / $40?
………………………………………………
Because he was a good prisoner.
12 Are these sentences right (3) or wrong (7)?
a Tom wanted to find a big rock so that Jim could sit on it.
c
b Tom and Huck wrote a letter saying that
some robbers wanted to steal Jim from the farm.
c
c Aunt Sally thought it was funny when she saw the butter running down Huck’s
head.
c
d Tom’s jacket caught on a tree and made a lot of noise.
c
e Tom was very unhappy because he was shot in the leg.
c
f The doctor told the men that Jim was a good man.
c
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1 Are these sentences right (3) or wrong (7)?
a Jim loved to write stories and people loved to read them.
c
b Huck’s father couldn’t read and write and he wasn’t very nice to Huck.
c
c Jim thought that Huck was dead when he ran away.
c
d Huck dressed like a girl so that people wouldn’t
know who he was.
c
e Huck saw a man with tied hands and feet on an old broken steamboat.
c
f Jim knew that people in France speak a different language from people in America.
c
g The two men that Huck and Jim met were really a king and a duke.
c
h Huck helped Mary Jane by writing her a letter. c
i Tom wanted to help Jim escape in the easiest way possible.
c
j At the end of the book, Tom is almost well again and Huck is living with Aunt Sally.
c
2 What happened first in the book? Number the
sentences.
a c Huck and Jim get lost in the fog.
b c Huck escapes from his father’s cabin and
paddles away.
c c Huck and Jim takes some things from a house
they see coming down the river.
d c Huck and Tom talk about how they are going
to help Jim escape.
e c Tom starts a gang of robbers in his secret hiding
place.
f c Jim is taken prisoner and kept on the Phelpses’
farm.
g c Aunt Sally hears all about Huck’s adventures.
h c The king goes on stage and people find him
very funny at first.
i c Huck talks to a woman who knows he isn’t
really a girl.
j c The king and duke say they are the brothers of
a dead man.
3 Finish the sentences with the right word.
hunting gladdest sink straight itch thanked
losing island knees off
a Huck often starts to ………… when he has to be
quiet.
b When Huck was living with his father, he often
went ………… .
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c It rained for the ten days and the ………… almost
disappeared.
d Huck ………… the woman for the food and left.
e The boat was going to ………… because it hit a
big rock.
f Huck said they cut ………… King Louis’s head.
g The steamboat was going ………… towards the
raft.
h The king went on stage on his hands and …………
and he wasn’t wearing any clothes.
i The king and duke were angry about …………
their money.
j Tom was the ………… of the three because he was
shot in the leg.
4 Write the names next to the sentences.
Huck Tom Jim Widow Douglas Aunt Sally
Huck’s Pap The king The duke Mr. Peter Wilks
Aunt Polly
a ………………… was lying dead on the floor in a
house on the river.
b ………………… took a steamboat from St. Petersburg to see what the trouble was at the
Phelpses’ farm.
c ………………… felt sorry for Mary Jane and tried
to help her.
d ………………… said he wanted to eat before
everybody else at dinner.
e ………………… knows a lot about robbers and
escaping from the books he reads.
f ………………… got angry with Huck because of
his dirty clothes.
g ………………… took people’s money at the door
to a play in a tent.
h ………………… got angry when Huck made a
joke about the fog.
i ………………… came from England and died
leaving a lot of money.
j ………………… was very worried because she
thought Tom was dead.
5 Write a word.
a A dead person who has returned to this world.
………………
b To follow and kill animals for food or sport.
………………
c A kind of boat made from long pieces of wood tied
together. ………………
d Money given for information or other help.
………………
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1.1 Open answers (1 In the south of the United States,
in the 1800s.)
1.2 Open answers (6 3) 2.1 1 T 2 NT 3 T 4 NT 5 T 6 T
2.2 1 a Because he found the money. It is his.
b Because his father has disappeared.
c Because he finds his hat in a tree.
d Because he wants to keep it safe for Huck.
e Because he doesn’t want Huck to run away.
f Because he wants to leave blood near the cabin.
People will think that he is dead.
2
Life with the Widow
Life with Pap
goes to school
lives in a cabin
learns to read, write, spell is often locked in
learns to be polite
hunts, fishes, swims
lives in a house
Pap often hits him
sleeps in a bed
wears nice, clean clothes
2.3 1 to keep it safe.
2 to trick Jim.
3 to join Tom’s gang.
4 to please the Widow.
5 to escape from Pap.
6 to trick Pap.
2.4 1 Jim 2 Huck
3.1 1 Huck 2 Jim 3 Pap 4 the Widow
5 Huck 6 Pap 7 Jim or Pap 8 Jim
3.2 Possible answers:
1 Don’t forget your new name!
2 Don’t leave your hat on in the house!
3 Don’t walk like a boy!
4 Don’t throw anything too hard or fast.
5 Don’t put your legs together when you catch
something in your dress.
3.3 1 Huck saw a man wearing a coat over his head.
2 Jim heard the Widow talking about him.
3 They saw a big house coming down the river.
4 They found a man lying on the floor.
5 There was a rat looking for food.
6 Huck found Jim sleeping in the tent.
3.4 1 Because he is running away from his father.
2 Because he wants to be a free man, not a slave.
3–8 Open answers (see 4.1)
4.1 father, free, night, steamboats, side, tent, fish, food
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2 Possible answer: Jim and Huck heard a noise.
Something was coming down the river, but they
couldn’t see it in the fog. Suddenly, a steamboat hit
the raft and destroyed it.
4.3 1 was raining, saw
2 asked, was holding
3 was paddling, disappeared
4 found, was sleeping
5 were looking, saw
6 were talking, heard
4.4 1 a B kings
b B King Louis XVI (the Sixteenth) of France
c A the French
2 Open answers (Possible answers: smart, greedy,
rich)
5.1 1 T 2 NT 3 NT 4 T 5 T 6 T 7 NT
8 NT
5.2 1 Jim, happy
2 The people in the town, angry
3 Jim, pain
4 Mary Jane, sad
5 Huck, worried
6 Huck, afraid
5.3 1 what 2 who 3 why 4 how 5 who
6 where 7 what 8 where
5.4 Open answers
6.1 1 is a prisoner on a farm.
2 is Tom Sawyer’s aunt.
3 is Tom Sawyer.
4 is from Ohio.
5 is Sid Sawyer.
6 is alone in a locked cabin.
6.2 1 A f 2 D c 3 C b 4 A d 5 D e 6 B a
6.3 1 ve waited 2 hasn’t come 3 have … come
4 haven’t come 5 ve seen 6 ve read
6.4 Open answers (but only A comes true)
Talk about it Open answers
Write about it Open answers
Project Open answers
Discussion activity key
1 Open answers. For information about the Mississippi
River, see “Background and Themes”. It passes
through ten states: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa,
Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas,
Mississippi and Louisiana.
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2–3 Open answers
4 So that his father doesn’t follow him. Open answers
5 –7 Open answers
8 He tells the man on the boat that his family are on the
steamboat and need help. He tells Jim things about
kings and dukes and that he was dreaming about the
fog. He tells the men with the guns that Jim is white
and that his family is sick. Open answers
9–11 Open answers
12 Suggested answers: Huck goes to town on a wagon to
get his bags. It’s illegal to help a runaway slave. Tom
gives Aunt Sally a kiss and she doesn’t like it. Tom
wants to dig a hole to help Jim escape. Tom wants
to give Jim an old shirt so that he can write messages
on it. Tom wants to get some rats for Jim. There are
always rats in prison.
13 –14 Open answers
Activity worksheets key
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a Widow Douglas b Jim c Tom
d Judge Thatcher e The teacher f Pap
g Huck
a happiness b hiding c ransom d footprints
e locked f hunting
a swam > paddled
b sky > water
c pig > ghost
d legal > illegal
e house > cave
f asleep > dead
a He made a tent.
b He was sleeping.
c He left the Widow’s house the day after Huck “was
killed”.
d Because he has hairy arms.
e Because he didn’t want anybody to see him.
f He practiced walking.
5 a Widow Douglas
b Huck
c Jim
d Man on the steamboat
e Man on the small boat
c Pearson Education Limited 2008
6 a tent b sink c language d smart e shining
f dreaming g wood
7 wide–narrow
entrance–exit
honest–dishonest
sick–well
dead–alive
carefully–carelessly
bring–take
downstairs–upstairs
quietly–loudly
8 a always feed him first at dinner.
b on a piece of paper.
c made a stage/did a show.
d eggs and old vegetables in their pockets.
e hear or speak.
f $6,000 under the house.
9 a 8 b 5 c 1 d 2 e 7 f 6 g 3 h 4
10 a fighted b hide c make d to (the first one)
e along f of g escape h running
11 a What couldn’t Aunt Sally find?
b What kind of walls do prisons have?
c Why did Tom and Huck write a letter?
d Where did Huck put the butter?
e Where was Tom shot?
f What did Widow Douglas do before she died?
g Why did Tom give Jim $40?
12 a 7 b 3 c 3 d 3 e 7 f 3
Progress test key
1 a 7 b 3 c 3 d 3 e 3 f 7 g 7 h 3
i 7 j 3
2 a 5 b 2 c 3 d 9 e 1 f 8 g 10 h 6
i 4 j 7
3 a itch b hunting c island d thanked e sink
f off g straight h knees i losing j gladdest
4 a Huck’s Pap b Aunt Polly c Huck d The king
e Tom f Widow Douglas g The duke h Jim
i Mr. Peter Wilks j Aunt Sally
5 a ghost b hunt c raft d reward
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