Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

Answer 1

In this excerpt, Huck tells us about Henry VIII. However, his knowledge of history is clearly very limited, as he ends up mixing many different time periods, stories, settings and events that are not related to each other. He makes a connection between Henry VIII, The Thousand and One Nights, the Boston Tea Party and the Declaration of Independence. It is unclear whether Huck believes all this to be true or not. However, he does tell all of these stories for a purpose. Huck wants to prove that throughout history, kings and other noble people have always behaved the same way, and we should not expect them to be any different nowadays.

Answer 2

That’s the kind of bug Henry was; and if we’d a had him along ’stead of our kings, he’d a fooled that town a heap worse than ourn done.”