Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Chapter 32
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Chapter questions
- Question 1 · Recall
What drives the dogs away when they surround Huck at the farm?
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An enslaved woman comes out of the kitchen and chases them off with a rolling pin.Reference: Chapter 32, arrival at the farm
- Question 2 · Recall
Who does Mrs. Phelps take Huck to be?
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Her nephew Tom Sawyer, whom she has been expecting. She greets him as her cousin Tom at first and names Tom Sawyer when she presents him to Silas.Reference: Chapter 32, Huck and Mrs. Phelps
- Question 3 · Recall
Where does Mrs. Phelps tell Huck to wait before Uncle Silas comes in?
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Behind the bed, so she can surprise Silas.Reference: Chapter 32, in the house
- Question 4 · Why
Why does Huck invent a breakdown on the steamboat?
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Mrs. Phelps asks why he is so late, and a delay on the boat gives a believable excuse for the trip he is supposed to have made. The text has him say a cylinder-head blew out.Reference: Chapter 32, Mrs. Phelps's questions
- Question 5 · Why
Why does Huck say he must go into town at the end of the chapter?
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He says he must fetch his baggage, but he means to reach the real Tom Sawyer first so the mistaken identity is not exposed.Reference: Chapter 32, Huck leaves the house
Chapter summary
Huck reaches the Phelps farm on a still, hot, sunshiny day that feels like Sunday. Hounds come out to meet him until an enslaved woman drives them off with a rolling pin. Mrs. Phelps then comes out of the house, hugs him and treats him as a relation she has been expecting, her nephew. Huck is caught off guard but goes along with it.
She asks why he is late, and he makes up a story about a steamboat breakdown. She hides him behind a bed to surprise her husband, Uncle Silas, who comes in worried that the visitor has not arrived. Then she presents Huck as Tom Sawyer, and the old man is delighted. Huck spends two hours inventing family news. When a steamboat passes, he worries that the real Tom may be on it. He says he will go for his baggage, and resolves to meet the real Tom before Tom reaches the house.
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