The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Chapters 32-39

1. Why does Huck assume Tom Sawyer's identity?

2. What happens when Tom appears on the scene?

3. What's the difference between Tom's plan for freeing Jim and Huck's?

4. How does Huck change when Tom comes?

5. Tom's plan is actually cruel. Why?

6. What more do we learn about Tom in these chapters?

 




Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues

Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words above 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. Yes, I remember now, he did die. Mortification set in, and they had to amputate him.

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2. Yes, I remember now, he did die. Mortification set in, and they had to amputate him.

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3. "My land!" she says, breaking in and jumping for him, "you impudent young rascal, to fool a body so-"

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4. "Uneasy!" she says; "I'm ready to go distracted!

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5. I must go up the road and waylay him.

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Part II: Determining the Meaning

You have tried to figure out the meanings of the vocabulary words for Chapters 32-33.

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. impudent                                   A. death of part of a body while the rest is alive

___2. mortification                              B. impertinent, offensively forward

___3. amputate                                   C. to cut off

___4. distracted                                  D. pulled in conflicting emotional directions

___5. waylay                                       E. to lie in wait for and attack from ambush