Questions+for+23-25


 * BRIEF PLOT REVIEW **


 * 1) What is “The Royal Nonesuch”? Why does it run for three nights if it is so awful
 * 2) What conclusions do Huck and Jim reach about kings and dukes?
 * 3) What story does Jim tell about his daughter (201-202)?
 * 4) How do the king and duke find out about the Wilks family? (204-206)
 * 5) What is the Wilks’ family tree? (206)
 * 6) How does Jim’s story preface the Wilks’ brothers?
 * 7) What is buried in the Wilks’ basement (214)?’
 * 8) What’s the “deffisit” (215)?
 * 9) Why do the duke and king give the money to the girls? (215-216)
 * 10) What does Doc. Robinson say about the king and duke? What are people’s responses? (218-219)


 * INTERPRETIVE QUESTIONS **
 * 1) Based on everything we have seen so far, how would you judge the quality of the king and duke’s acting abilities? Why do people fall for them?
 * 2) Who’s more pathetic in “The Royal Nonesuch”? The audience or the actors? Why is the name of the production significant?
 * 3) Why does Twain put the story about Jim’s daughter //here//? What effect does it have on you and how you think about Jim? About the people around him? About what happens to him at the beginning of chapter 24?
 * 4) Why doesn’t Jim just leave when Huck, the duke and the king are gone?
 * 5) If the king and duke aren’t so great at acting, why do people believe them as the Wilks brothers?
 * 6) How are the duke and king contributing to Huck’s moral growth?
 * 7) How do the duke and king get people to trust them even more? How does that change your opinion of them?
 * 8) Why don’t the people believe Doc Robinson when he calls the duke and king frauds? How do the prior discussions of mob mentality help us understand what happens at the Wilks’ place?