Question

Read the excerpt below from the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Analyze the chart and answer the question that follows.
Her sister, Miss Watson, a tolerable slim old maid, with goggles on, had just come to live with her, and took a set at me now with a spelling-book. She worked me middling hard for about an hour, and then the widow made her ease up. I couldn’t stood it much longer. Then for an hour it was deadly dull, and I was fidgety. Miss Watson would say, “Don’t put your feet up there, Huckleberry;” and “Don’t scrunch up like that, Huckleberry—set up straight;” and pretty soon she would say, “Don’t gap and stretch like that, Huckleberry—why don’t you try to behave?” Then she told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there. She got mad then, but I didn’t mean no harm. All I wanted was to go somewheres; all I wanted was a change, I warn’t particular. She said it was wicked to say what I said; said she wouldn’t say it for the whole world; she was going to live so as to go to the good place. Well, I couldn’t see no advantage in going where she was going, so I made up my mind I wouldn’t try for it. But I never said so, because it would only make trouble, and wouldn’t do no good.
Source: Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 1885. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2008. Print.


Based on the excerpt, which phrase below would best complete the chart characterizing Huckleberry Finn as a “stubborn, nonconforming boy”?

A.
Huck is obviously able to sit still, but he does not like spelling.
B.
Huck is finally able to sit and conform to the spelling lesson.
C.
Huck is obviously not able to sit still and conform to the spelling lesson.
D.
Huck likes Miss Watson and really appreciates that she is trying to help him.

Answer 1

The answer is huck is obviously not able to sit still and conform to the spelling lesson.