The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

• When was Huck Finn produced?


  1885
• Who wrote Huck Finn?

  Mark Twain
• What did Mark Twain rely on?


  His own personal experience in a slave state (Missouri) and spent years piloting on the Mississippi bringing him into contact with slavery
• What percentage of the population in Eastern states lived in towns/cities?


  Over 50%
• What was industrial investment at this period?


  Over 4 billion dollars
• How many copies does Huck Finn regularly sell?


  200,000 a year
• What is Huck Finn considered to be?

  A masterpiece of American literature
• How many times has Huck Finn been reprinted in America alone?


  150 times
• What was the print run of Huck Finn in 1885?


  57,000
• How popular is Huck Finn within schools?


  It is popular in many classrooms, 2nd to Shakespeare, maintained in places today
• What did the NAACP declare?


  In 1957, declared the novel contained racial slurs
• What is extensively used throughout the novel?

  Use of derogatory terms for black Americans
• What were John Wallace's comments about Huck Finn?


  Huck Finn was humiliating and insulting, contributing to white students disrespect for black students
• What happened following John Wallace's comment?


  The book was removed from school reading lists
• What dialect does Jim use and to what effect?

  He uses a pre civil war Missouri black dialect to reinforce his uneducated nature
• How is black subservience reinforced?


  Jim is always dependant upon and inferior to Huck
• Why did a public library refuse to stock Huck Finn?

  A public library in Massachusetts refused to stock it beause of its percieved crudeness and saw Huck as not a positive role model for young people
• How was Huck Finn initially described?


  Trashy, racist, course, innacurate and irreligious
• What did the Supreme Court declare about Huck Finn?


  Declared in 1998 that it reflected ideas at the time but wouldn't be hurtful for black children if they read it
• How many copies were sold by 1960?

  10 million copies
• How many editions does Huck Finn have in the US alone?


  40
• How many copies had Huck Finn sold by 2020


  20 million
• What is the name of the runaway slave in Huck Finn?

  Jim
• How is Jim's inferiority presented?


  Jim is constantly willing to risk his own life to aid Huck and is forever subservient to whites within the novel despite his logic, loyalty and intelligence