Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Chapter 16
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Chapter questions
- Question 1 · Recall
What does Huck tell the two armed men that makes them keep away?
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He says his father is sick on the raft, and the men take this to mean smallpox.Reference: Chapter 16, Huck and the two men
- Question 2 · Recall
How much money do the two men leave Huck?
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Forty dollars in all, twenty from each man.Reference: Chapter 16, Huck and the two men
- Question 3 · Recall
What happens to the raft near the end of the chapter?
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A steamboat comes out of thick weather and smashes through it, throwing Huck and Jim into the river.Reference: Chapter 16, the night collision
- Question 4 · Why
Why does Huck set out in the canoe toward shore?
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He feels he is wronging Miss Watson by helping Jim run away, and at that moment he means to tell someone where Jim is.Reference: Chapter 16, Huck's conscience
- Question 5 · Why
Why might Huck answer the men that the man on the raft is white?
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Earlier, Jim calls Huck the best friend he ever had and his only friend, and Huck says that seemed to take the tuck all out of him. Just before the men come, Jim calls him the only white gentleman who ever kept his promise to Jim, and Huck just felt sick. The text links Jim's words to Huck's weakening, but the lie is Huck's own choice.Reference: Chapter 16, Huck's answer
Chapter summary
Huck and Jim drift south toward Cairo, the town where the Ohio River joins the Mississippi and where they would be in a free state. Jim keeps watching for its lights and talks about saving money to buy his wife and children. Huck grows uneasy, because he feels he is helping take someone away from his owner. He decides to paddle to shore and tell on Jim, but Jim says Huck is his best and only friend, and Huck wavers.
Two men with guns stop him and ask about the raft. The men ask whether his man is white or black, and Huck answers that he is white. He then asks them to help tow the raft because his father is there and sick, so the men think it is smallpox, and they give him forty dollars before leaving. They miss Cairo in the fog, find the Ohio's clear water, and lose their canoe. A steamboat then hits the raft and the two are separated in the river.
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