Questions+for+26-28


 * Plot Questions**
 * 1) Summarize the conversation Huck and Joanna have (221-224).
 * 2) What question does Joanna ask about servants and what is Huck’s answer (223)?
 * 3) Why exactly is Mary Jane so upset with Joanna (224-225)? What is the effect of her anger on Huck (225)?
 * 4) Why does the duke want to leave (226-227)?
 * 5) Why does the king want to stick around, and how does he explain why it’s OK if they do (227-228)?
 * 6) Where does Huck finally hide the money and why (230)?
 * 7) What disrupts the funeral (232)?
 * 8) Why is Huck so concerned when the undertaker screws the lid on the coffin (233)?
 * 9) What does the king say will happen now that the funeral is over (234)?
 * 10) What is the first thing the king sells and what effect does it have (234)?
 * 11) How does Huck divert the king’s suspicion that he took the money (234-237)?
 * 12) Why is Mary Jane crying (238)?
 * 13) Once Huck tells Mary Jane the truth, why doesn’t he want her to do anything about right away (240)?
 * 14) Who does Huck say can corroborate his assertion that the king and duke are frauds (241)?
 * 15) Why does Huck want Mary Jane to leave (242)?
 * 16) What can’t Huck bring himself to tell Mary Jane (243)?
 * 17) What story does Huck concoct to explain Mary Jane’s absence?


 * INTERPRETIVE QUESTIONS **
 * 1) Why is it important that Huck has had to act as the king and duke’s servant? What has his having to do so taught him?
 * 2) What happens on page 225 three times? What does this show us?
 * 3) Why isn’t Mary Jane troubled to hear that Huck might have been telling lies?
 * 4) What are Huck’s feelings about Mary Jane?
 * 5) Why does he choose to //__st__////__eal__// the money (225-226)?
 * 6) Why does Huck tell Mary Jane the truth (238-239)?
 * 7) Why can’t he say where the money might still be hidden (243)?
 * 8) What does it mean to be “full of sand” (244)?