Adventures of huckleberry finn jeopardy!

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Adventures of huckleberry finnjeopardy!

• Feraco
• American literature
• 9 january 2008

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Categories

• CHARACTERS
• Events
• Philosophies
• 3 Questions worth 100
• 3 Questions Worth 200
• 1 Question Worth 100
• Keep Track of your score! The points you earn
  will be added up in a running Total as we
  continue to do these (we wont do them for every
  chapter, but this isnt our last session).

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Characters for 100

• Who is Miss Watsons main slave?
• Jim.

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Characters for 100

• Who is hucks best Friend?
• Tom Sawyer.

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Characters for 100

• Which characters take care of HucK?
• Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas.

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Characters for 200

• What do we know about Huck from the way he talks?
• We know he is uneducated, Young, and Southern.

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Characters for 200

• Why is Pap Considered unfit to be Hucks father?
• Because hes usually drunk, and hes violent even
  when hes Sober

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Characters for 200

• Why is Pap Angry that Huck is going to school?
• Hucks education makes him better than Pap, who
  cant stand to be threatened in such a way.

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Characters for 300

• Why is Judge Thatcher Important in Hucks Life?
• He has been guarding the Six-Thousand Dollar
  Fortune that Huck Found with Tom.

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Events for 100

• How does Jim react to the trick Tom Sawyer plays
  on him?
• He tells stories that impress the other slaves.

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Events for 100

• How does Ben rogers react when Tom outlines the
  gangs plan for ransoming people?
• He reacts skeptically, because Tom clearly
  doesnt know what hes talking about.

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Events for 100

• Why is Huck going to school by the time we get to
  Chapter 6?
• Hes doing it to spite Pap.

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Events for 200

• How does Huck react when a spider lands in a
  candle?
• Hes terrified he accidentally committed a
  wrong, and feels that its going to bring him bad
  luck.

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Events for 200

• Why does the new Judge Prevent the Widow Douglas
  from claiming custody of Huck?
• The New Judge is naïve and foolish, and refuses
  to separate a son from a father simply because
  theyre related regardless of how bad the
  father is at parenting!

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Events for 200

• Why does Huck resign from the gang?
• Because it doesnt do anything its all words
  and no action. In that way, He sees it the same
  way he sees the bible and says it felt like a
  Sunday school.

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Events for 300

• How does the new judge find out how Pap really
  is?
• He and his wife take him in, listen to his
  reformation speech, and start weeping for Joy.
  Then Pap goes back on his word, and they feel
  betrayed.

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Philosophies for 100

• What differences can you spot between Tom Sawyer
  and Huck Finn?
• Huck is decent, if misguided, while Tom Enjoys
  making a nuisance of himself Huck also values
  experience over the words in books, whereas Tom
  prizes rituals and words over reality.

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Philosophies for 100

• Why does Huck prefer the bad place to the
  good place?
• Not only does he feel like its not possible to
  become totally sivilized, but he wants to go
  where Tom goes Prizing friendship above all
  else.

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Philosophies for 100

• How did the boys in Tom Sawyers gang show their
  loyalty to the cause?
• They signed their names in blood.

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Philosophies for 200

• What is ironic about Toms solution to the
  situation with the crying boy?
• After going on and on about lofty ideals and
  loyalty, tom simply bribes the kid into keeping
  quiet.

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Philosophies for 200

• What does Huck think about praying?
• He doesnt see the point he wishes for concrete
  things, and when they dont appear, he simply
  assumes his prayers arent working. (Its another
  example of something that civilization prizes
  simply failing huck.)

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Philosophies for 200

• How does Pap feel about the govment and
  educated ns?
• He feels wronged by the government on a personal
  level, and is horrified that any non-white
  individual could be regarded as equal to himself
  let alone better!

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Philosophies for 300

• Why does Huck decide that there must be two
  Providences, and what differentiates the two?
• Huck believes that the heavens that the Widow
  Douglas and Miss Watson believe in are separate
  realms. Miss Watsons is stricter, whereas the
  Widows Heaven is based more on compassion.

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Thats All for today!

• Keep track of your scores!
• See you on Thursday Well be doing the literary
  Analysis Essay for the next two days.
• Dont forget to keep up with your reading!
• Turn in your current discussion Questions, and
  get started on your new ones!