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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 31-45.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was stuck in closed off elbows in Twain's stories in Chapter 17?
(a) Aligators.
(b) Fisheries.
(c) Lost towns.
(d) Ghost ships.

2. What did Twain discover as he wanted to see one specific town?
(a) Its access to the river was blocked.
(b) The town burned to the ground.
(c) The town was deserted.
(d) The town doubled in size.

3. What woman did Twain borrow accounts from in Chapter 29?
(a) Mrs. Troll.
(b) Mrs. Trollope.
(c) Mrs. Ruth.
(d) Mrs. Ruppert.

4. What was the main quality good pilots needed to have according to Twain in Chapter 13?
(a) Patiences.
(b) Attention.
(c) Quick reflexes.
(d) Memory.

5. What did Twain describe in Chapter 11?
(a) How cargo wasunloaded.
(b) His fear of piloting alone.
(c) The trip of a family en route for New Orleans.
(d) An amazing piece of piloting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What changed on the Mississippi during Twain's time according to Chapter 17?

2. What did Twain become after his career as a pilot?

3. What did the manufacturing city in Chapter 39 produce?

4. What did Twain compare steamboats to in Chapter 38?

5. What happened to Napoleon?

(see the answer key)

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