The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Name: __________________________________________________________ Date: ________________

Chapters 40-43

1. How does Huck appear to be superior to Tom?

2. What happens to Jim? Huck? Tom?

3. Is there anything left undecided at the end of the novel?

Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues

Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use
 any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you
 think the underlined words mean on the lines provided.

1. But we didn't answer; we just unfurled our heels and shoved.

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2. I was just to that pass I didn't have no reasoning facilities no more.

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3. The men was very huffy and some of them wanted to hang Jim for an example...

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4. I found a good enough place for me under the bed, for it was getting pretty sultry for us, seemed to me.

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Part II: Determining the Meaning

You have tried to figure out the meanings of the vocabulary words for Chapters 40-43.

Now match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions. If there are words for which you
cannot figure out the definition by contextual clues and by process of elimination, look them up in a
dictionary.

___1. unfurled                                    A. a fit of anger or annoyance

___2. faculties                                    B. very humid and hot

___3. huffy                                         C. spread or opened something out

___4. sultry                                         D. any of the power or capacities possessed by the human mind