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