Huck Finn: Questions from chapters 17-19
Chapter 17
1. How does Huck solve the problem of forgetting his name?
2. What does Huck think of the Grangerfords? Of their home?
3. Why had Emmeline died?
Chapter 18
4. What is the cause of the feud?
5. Which side started the shooting?
6. Buck tells Huck, “There ain’t a coward amongst the Shepherdson’s—not a one. And there ain’t no cowards amongst the Grangerfords either.” What are the drawbacks to this sort of courage?
7. What has happened to Jim since the last time Huck has seen him?
8. What happens to the various Grangerfords? What does Huck do?
Chapter 19
9. Read Huck’s description of the river that begins, “Two or three days and nights went by; I reckon I might say they swum by, they slid along so quiet and smooth and lovely.” What causes Huck’s new appreciation of life on the raft?
10. The peaceful interlude on the raft is disturbed by the arrival of two men. Name and describe them.
11. When the two men first got on the raft, why did they talk to each other and ignore Huck and Jim?
12. Huck calls the two men, “…low-down humbugs and frauds.” Why does he pretend to believe them?