Cloze Summary: Chapters 19-30 - Middletown …



Cloze Summary: Chapters 19-31

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Directions: Complete the following summary of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn using the word bank.

Arkansas

Artists

Boggs

Charlatans

Collection

Cons

Cowardice

Daughter

Dauphin

Daylight

Fence

Gun

Huck

King

Leaves

Lynch

Mob

Night

Orphaned

Pirate

Reformed

Religious

River

Roof

Royal Nonesuch

Runaway Slave

Shakespeare

Speech

A few days later, Huck and Jim rescue a pair of _________ who are being pursued by armed townspeople. The men, clearly con ___________, claim to be a displaced English Duke (the duke) and the long-lost heir to the French throne (the _____________) to get special attention. The duke and the dauphin ask whether Jim is a ___________ ______. Huck makes up a story about how he was _____________ed and tells them that he and Jim have been forced to travel at ___________ since so many people stopped his boat to ask whether Jim was a runaway. Powerless to tell two white adults to leave, ________ and Jim continue down the river with the pair of “aristocrats.” The duke and the dauphin pull several _________ in the small towns along the __________.

The next morning, the duke gets the dauphin to agree to put on a performance of _____________ in the next town they pass. They reach the town and find that everyone in the town has left for a _____________ revival meeting in the woods. The ____________ gets up and tells the crowd that he is a former ____________, now ___________ by the revival meeting. The crowd joyfully takes up a ____________, netting the dauphin more than eighty dollars.

Next, the group visits a one-horse town in _________________. The duke posts handbills for the _____________ __________________, and Huck witnesses the shooting of a rowdy drunk named _____________ by a man whom the drunk has insulted. The shooting takes place in front of the victim’s _______________. A crowd gathers around the dying man and then goes off to ____________ Sherburn. The lynch mob charges through the streets, proceeds to Sherburn’s house, and knocks down the __________. The crowd quickly backs away, however, as Sherburn greets them from the _________ of his front porch, _________ in hand. After a chilling silence, Sherburn delivers a ____________ on human nature in which he attacks the _____________ and ________ mentality of the average person. Sherburn tells the crowd that no one will lynch him in the __________. The mob, chastened, ___________.

Directions: Complete the following summary of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn using the word bank.

Angry

Brothers

Charlatans

Children

Crime

Daughters

Duke

England

Family

Farmer

Great

Handbill

Huck

Jim

King

Mary Jane

Men

Money

Peter Wilks

Raft

Revenge

Reward

Royal Nonesuch

Runaway

Saves

Steal

Threat

Tricked

Wilks’ coffin

Wife

The “___________ ______________” plays to a capacity audience. The dauphin has the audience howling with laughter. When the duke and the dauphin when they end the show early, the people in the crowd, ________________ at having been ripped off, decide to protect their honor by making certain that everyone in the town gets _____________ too. After the performance, they tell everyone else in town that the play was_____________. The second night, therefore, also brings a capacity crowd. As the duke has anticipated, the crowd on the third night consists of the two previous nights’ audiences coming to get their __________. Huck and the duke make a getaway to the raft before the show starts. Jim spends his night watches “moaning and mourning” for his _______ and two ___________. Though “it don’t seem natural,” Huck concludes that Jim loves his _________ as much as white men love theirs.

On the surface, the __________ and the ____________ seem to be just two bumbling con artists, but they present an immediate _________ to Huck and Jim. The two men constantly and cruelly toy with ________’s precarious status as a runaway slave and even use this fact to their own advantage when they print the fake ____________ advertising a _______________ for Jim’s capture.

Coming into one town, they hear the story of a man, _________ __________, who has recently died and left much of his inheritance to his two ______________, who should be arriving from _____________ any day. The duke and the dauphin enter the town pretending to be Wilks’s family. Wilks’s three __________ welcome the con men and they quickly set about liquidating the estate. A few ______________ become skeptical and Huck, who grows to admire the Wilks sisters, decides to thwart the scam. He ________s the dead Peter Wilks’s ___________ from the duke and the dauphin but is forced to stash it in __________ ________________. Huck then reveals all to the eldest Wilks sister, ________ ___________. Huck’s plan for exposing the duke and the dauphin is about to unfold when Wilks’s real brothers arrive from Europe. The townspeople hold both sets of Wilks claimants, and the _______________ just barely escape in the ensuing confusion. Fortunately for the sisters, the fortune is found. Unfortunately, the duke and the dauphin make it back to the ___________ just as Huck and Jim are pushing off.

After a few more small scams, the duke and dauphin commit their worst __________ yet: they sell Jim to a local ____________, telling him Jim is a ___________ for whom a large bounty is being offered. ________ finds out where Jim is being held and resolves to ________ him, stating “All right, then, I’ll go to hell.”

Cloze Summary: Chapters 32-43

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

At the house where Jim is a prisoner, a woman greets Huck excitedly and calls him “_________.” As Huck quickly discovers, the people holding Jim are none other than _______ ______________’s aunt and uncle, Silas and Sally ________. The Phelpses mistake _________ for Tom, who is due to arrive for a visit, and Huck goes along with their mistake. He intercepts Tom between the Phelps house and the steamboat dock, and Tom pretends to be his own younger brother, ________.

____________ hatches a wild plan to free Jim, adding all sorts of _________________ obstacles even though Jim is only lightly secured. Huck is sure Tom’s plan will get them all ________________, but he __________ nonetheless. After a seeming eternity of _________________ preparation, during which the boys ransack the Phelps’s house and make Aunt Sally miserable, they put the plan into action. Jim is ____________, but a pursuer shoots __________ in the __________. ________ is forced to get a doctor, and ________ sacrifices his freedom to nurse ________. All are returned to the Phelps’s house, where ________ ends up back in chains.

When ________ wakes the next morning, he reveals that _________ has actually been a ________ _______ all along, as _________ ___________, who made a provision in her _______to free Jim, _______ two months earlier. Tom had planned the entire escape idea all as an _________________ and had intended to pay Jim for his troubles. Tom’s Aunt ____________ then shows up, identifying “Tom” and “Sid” as __________ and _________. Jim tells Huck, who fears for his future—particularly that his __________ might reappear—that the __________ they found on the floating house off _____________’s Island had been _________’s. Aunt _________ then steps in and offers to ________ Huck, but Huck, who has had enough “___________________,” announces his plan to set out for the _____________.

Reflection: The story presents a ( romantic or realistic ) ending for the main characters.

Briefly explain your choice:

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