Summer School: Huck Finn Chs. 7-9
Remember to put your name (first initial and last name: dconlay) at the top of your comments. Please write your answers using complete sentences. Begin each chapter section by identifying the chapter. Begin each questionby identifying the question number.
Chapter 7
23. For what did Huck dive in the water?
24. What did Huck drop "so as to look like it had been done by accident?"
25. What was Huck's destination once he was in the canoe?
Chapter 8
26. Why was the ferry-boat firing the cannon?
27. How long is Jackson Island?
28. What did Huck find that made his "heart jump up amongst his lungs?"
29. Why was Jim afraid of Huck?
30. Why didn't Huck believe that bees didn't sting idiots?
Chapter 9
31. How wide was the island?
32. What did Jim say that the little birds said?
33. Were they right?
34. How did the man in the house die?