The duke and the king
1. who are they?
2. why are they on the river?
3. why do they stay with huck?
4. why does huck stay with them?

1.The Duke and the king - are the main antagonists in Mark Twain’s novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. These are a pair of con artists who goes from town to town commiting various schemes; robbing people .

2. They are on the river because they are running away from one scheme job that went wrong and now they are being chased away and that their escaping route .

3.they stay with Huck after they found out that there is a dead person who had two brothers and they use the opportunity to act as those two brothers with an aim to benefit from the situation by committing another scheme.

4. Huck stay with them probably he felt sorry for them cause he could relate somehow as he may see some innocent sides from them

Explanation:

since it is asking for her reaction to elnora's trouble at school you can rule out any answers with a positive response (b). then you can rule out (d), this is because it does not show the mother's reaction but the daughter's response. that leaves you with two options (a) and (c), by looking at the options you can rule out (c) because it isn't referring back to elnora's issues at school.

d

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