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This Quiz Tests Your Knowledge Of Mark Twain And Certain Details Of His Works: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, The Lowest Animal, And Story Without An End. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

What is Mark Twain's real name?
a) Simon L. Clark
b) Thomas Sawyer
c) Samuel L. Clemens
d) Samuel L. Twain

Which term does NOT describe Mark Twain as a writer?
a) Realist
b) Satirist
c) Naturalist
d) Reagionalist

What term did Twain coin to describe the hypocrisies and corruptions of the late 1800s?
a) The Golden Age
b) The Heartless Age
c) The Gilded Age
d) The Realistic Age

In many of his works, including Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain makes use of ________to show the way characters actually talked.
a) vernacular
b) dialect
c) neither a or b
d) both a and b

Twain often made use of _________in his fiction, an outer story which brackets an inner story.
a) frame story
b) hyperbole
c) vernacular
d) archetype

river do Huck and Jim travel down in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
a) Missouri
b) Mississippi
c) Arkansas
d) Delaware

Where was Mark Twain raised and where The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn take place?
a) Hannibal, Missouri
b) St. Louis, Missouri
c) Anderson, Missouri
d) Douglas, Missouri

As he grew older, Twain’s writing became ____________.
a) more humorous
b) more religious
c) more optimistic
d) more bitter

Huck Finn, the narrator of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was introduced in which other Twain novel?
a) The Innocents Abroad
b) The Prince and the Pauper
c) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
d) The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

Famed writer ____________________ said that “all American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”
a) Walt Whitman
b) Ernest Hemingway
c) Emily Dickinson
d) F. Scott Fitzgerald

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