Huck Finn, Chapters 7-11

If you can answer these questions, you're ahead of me in the book. I'm only on Chapter 5!

1. What do we learn about Huck in Chapter 7?
2. What sorts of survival skills does Huck demonstrate in Chapter 8? Would you be able to survive on Jackson's Island on your own? Do you think Huck is an ordinary teenager from the antebellum era or is Huck exceptional? Either way, why would Twain make that choice?
3. Jim's dialect causes problems for many readers. It's more important to understand the general idea of what Jim says than to understand every word, though it's easier to understand the ideas if you know the words. Try summarizing Jim's story about his escape. Why did he run away?
4. Define the following: poorty, awluz, oneasy, do', de widder, dey'd, sho, b'fo', whah, bymeby.
5. At the close of Chapter 8, Jim says "... I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars" (Twain 43). What's the purpose of that statement?
6. In Chapter 9, Jim won't let Huck see the dead man, and later, Jim doesn't want to talk about him. What does this reveal about Jim's character and his relationship to Huck?
7. In these chapters, we hear a lot more about superstition and bad luck. Do you believe in bad luck? Does Twain?
8. In Chapter 11, what is Twain's attitude about lying? How do you know?