Mark Twain - Quiz
A) William Shakespeare B) Thomas Jefferson C) Samuel Clemens D) John Adams
A) Missouri B) Texas C) California D) New York
A) The Great Gatsby B) Moby Dick C) Pride and Prejudice D) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A) Life on the Mississippi B) The Innocents Abroad C) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court D) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
A) 1885 B) 1900 C) 1850 D) 1876
A) Huckleberry Finn B) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer C) The Prince and the Pauper D) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A) To be or not to be, that is the question. B) The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. C) I have a dream. D) All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
A) Lawyer B) Riverboat Pilot C) Farmer D) Doctor
A) Louisa May Alcott B) Olivia Langdon C) Harriet Beecher Stowe D) Emily Dickinson
A) Joe Harper B) Ben Rogers C) Huck Finn D) Tom Blankenship
A) 1930 B) 1900 C) 1910 D) 1920
A) Hartford, Connecticut B) New York City, New York C) Chicago, Illinois D) Los Angeles, California
A) 1894 B) 1884 C) 1865 D) 1876
A) Printing press B) Steamboat engine C) Typewriter D) Paige Compositor
A) Henry Huttleston Rogers B) Grant Marsh C) Orion Clemens D) Charles Dudley Warner
A) Henry Clemens B) Orion Clemens C) Benjamin Clemens D) Pleasant Hannibal Clemens
A) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer B) Pudd'nhead Wilson C) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court D) King Leopold's Soliloquy
A) The Civil War B) The Spanish-American War C) World War I D) The Revolutionary War
A) Hannibal Clipper B) Mississippi Queen C) A. B. Chambers D) Nevada Belle
A) Society for Psychical Research B) International Typographical Union C) Virginia City Territorial Enterprise D) American Anti-Imperialist League
A) Colonialism B) Explosion C) Pneumonia D) Heart attack
A) 1870 B) 1867 C) 1861 D) 1864
A) A mining town in Virginia B) San Francisco C) The Mormon community in Salt Lake City D) New York
A) Stagecoach driver B) Miner on the Comstock Lode C) Teacher D) Journalist at Territorial Enterprise
A) Dan DeQuille B) Charles Langdon C) Samuel Clemens D) Mark Twain
A) "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" B) "Letter From Carson – re: Joe Goodman; party at Gov. Johnson's; music" C) "The Innocents Abroad" D) "Roughing It"
A) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B) Roughing It C) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer D) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A) His experiences in Angels Camp, California B) A Mediterranean cruise C) His journey across the Great Plains D) A trip to Hawaii
A) The Saturday Press B) Sacramento Union C) New-York Tribune D) Territorial Enterprise
A) Photographer B) Travel agent C) Reporter D) Editor
A) New York City B) Buffalo, New York C) Elmira, New York D) Hartford, Connecticut
A) W.E.B. Du Bois B) Harriet Tubman C) Sojourner Truth D) Frederick Douglass
A) History trivia game B) Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments C) Self-pasting scrapbook D) Paige typesetting machine
A) George Westinghouse B) Thomas Edison C) Alexander Graham Bell D) Nikola Tesla
A) Honolulu, Hawaii B) Fiji C) Australia D) New Zealand
A) Following the Equator B) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court C) The Innocents Abroad D) Life on the Mississippi
A) Ina Coolbrith B) Henry Rogers C) Dorothy Quick D) George Washington Cable
A) Moro Crater Massacre B) Battle of Manila Bay C) Siege of Baler D) Bataan Death March
A) Charles L. Webster B) Henry Huttleston Rogers C) Thomas Lounsbury D) Ulysses S. Grant
A) Abolition of slavery. B) Labor rights. C) Prohibition. D) Women's suffrage.
A) $471,000 B) $300,000 C) $600,000 D) $750,000
A) St. Louis Mercantile Library B) Buffalo & Erie County Public Library C) Tulane University D) Newberry Library
A) Susy B) Clara C) Jean D) Livy
A) Scribner's Magazine B) Harper's Bazaar C) Collier's Weekly D) The Atlantic Monthly
A) The Ash Ranch Press B) Charles L. Webster and Company C) The American Publishing Company D) Harper & Brothers
A) 'I created it independently without any influence.' B) 'He gave me permission to use it.' C) 'I confiscated the ancient mariner's discarded one.' D) 'It was a gift from Captain Sellers himself.'
A) Robespierre B) Danton C) Louis XVI D) Marat
A) 'Sieur Louis de Conte' B) 'John Snook' C) 'Josh' D) 'Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass'
A) The Territorial Enterprise B) The Virginia Daily Union C) The San Francisco Alta California D) The New York Saturday Press
A) Presbyterian B) Methodist C) Baptist D) Catholic
A) 1895 B) 1884 C) 1907 D) 1916
A) One B) Two C) Three D) Four
A) Scribner's Magazine B) Atlantic Monthly C) Harper's Magazine D) The Century Magazine
A) Sartor Resartus B) French Revolution C) The Life of John Sterling D) On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History
A) Egypt B) South Africa C) India D) the Congo Free State
A) "Der Zauber des Englischen" B) "Die Freude der Italienischen Sprache" C) "Das Wunder der Französischen Sprache" D) "Die Schrecken der Deutschen Sprache"
A) Libertarian B) Democratic C) Republican D) Independent
A) Writing political essays B) Chronicling historical events C) Creating scientific literature D) Writing light, humorous verse
A) 1904 B) 1906 C) 1908 D) 1910
A) Creating public domain status for older works B) Reducing taxes on authors' incomes C) Implementing stricter plagiarism laws D) Extending copyright protection to the author's lifetime plus 50 years.
A) James Fenimore Cooper B) Robert Louis Stevenson C) George Eliot D) Jane Austen
A) Sansculotte B) Bourbon C) Jacobin D) Girondin
A) Protectionism B) Laissez faire C) Socialism D) Keynesian economics
A) Shakespeare Society, Literary Lions B) Authors' Club, Beefsteak Club, Vagabonds C) Poets' Circle, Humorists' Haven D) Dramatists Guild, Comedy Enthusiasts
A) Focusing solely on abstract themes B) Writing in a formal, academic tone C) Rendering colloquial speech D) Using complex, archaic language
A) Virginia Daily Union B) San Francisco Alta California C) Sacramento Union D) New York Saturday Press
A) secretary B) vice-president C) treasurer D) president
A) 'Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass' B) 'John Snook' C) 'Josh' D) 'Sieur Louis de Conte'
A) Oxford University B) Imperial College London C) University of London D) Cambridge University
A) Territorial Enterprise B) Quaker City C) Alta California D) Ajax
A) Polar Star Lodge No. 79 A.F.&A.M. B) Nevada Lodge No. 75 C) Missouri Lodge No. 100 D) St. Louis Lodge No. 50
A) Charles L. Webster and Company B) Pennyroyal Press C) The American Publishing Company D) Harper & Brothers
A) As a paradise untouched by human corruption. B) As an extraordinary country visited by the sun, where only man is vile. C) As a place devoid of any cultural significance. D) As a land of peace and prosperity.
A) Hartford House B) Elmira Manor C) Buffalo Estate D) Stormfield
A) Jacobins B) Sansculottes C) Royalists D) Girondins
A) Oxford University B) Princeton University C) Yale University D) Harvard University
A) Supportive B) Indifferent C) Critical D) Enthusiastic
A) Virginia City Writers B) New York Press Society C) Sagebrush School D) Silver-tongued Orators
A) Democrats B) Independents C) Republicans D) Mugwumps
A) Socialist B) Centrist C) Primarily liberal D) More conservative than liberal
A) Samuel Clemens himself before adopting it B) Captain Isaiah Sellers C) An anonymous journalist from New Orleans D) A fictional character created by Mark Twain
A) Friendship and loyalty B) Social commentary through role reversal C) Adventure and exploration D) Travel and discovery
A) 1990 B) 2000 C) 1980 D) 2010
A) Military conquest B) Agriculture C) Technology D) Religious reform
A) Virginia Daily Union B) The Atlantic Monthly C) San Francisco Alta California D) New York Saturday Press
A) Project Gutenberg B) Faded Page (Canada) C) Standard Ebooks D) LibriVox
A) They were written in an unknown language B) Many were lost or not recorded C) They were all destroyed by critics D) They were never spoken publicly
A) A Presbyterian Church B) A school C) A hospital D) A library
A) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B) Pudd'nhead Wilson C) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court D) The Mysterious Stranger
A) Civil liberties B) Freedom of speech C) Personal political rights D) Economic freedoms
A) 'The Prince and the Pauper' B) 'Huckleberry Finn' C) 'Life on the Mississippi' D) 'Tom Sawyer'
A) Vienna, Austria B) Sanna, Sweden C) London, England D) Belgravia, London |
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