1. the residents are described as extremely cruel individuals, who want to lynch someone and make dogs run in circles until they die. The Arkansas' behavior is just the practical discounting back of the quote: their actions testify the cruel soul of the humans.
2. Huck is a good kid, he knows that the conduct of the two criminals is not fair, he doesn't share their ideas and besides, he doesn't want to get in trouble.
3. Twain satirizes the idea of honor - considered as a virtue that people should protect with their lives. The true episode is the murder of a drunk guy that importuned a Colonel and got killed for this.
4. The circus is an easy entertainment that does not require people to understand or focus on the actual show, while Shakespeare is a type of fun that needs educated people willing to pay attention to what they are seeing. Of course most people look for easy fun therefore the circus is much more crowded.
5. Huck's reaction underlines his naiavity and guillability because he didn't understand that the trick was played on the spectators, not on the ringmaster, whom Huck thinks to be more deceived.
6. The ad provokes men to be curious because it tells that not everyone is allowed to watch the show. People generally want to do secret things, or prohibited.
7. Twain is saying that actually the two criminals are malefactors, they are not truthful and use money of other people to their advantage, but so are the royalties: they do not reveal all the secrets that would make them look evil and avid and use money from the peasants for their luxurious life.
Good job, but where are questions 8 and 9?
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