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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 45-60.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city was having cases of Yellow Death in Chapter 29?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) Memphis.
(c) Okampa.
(d) Baton Rouge.

2. What weather accompanied Twain during his travels in Chapter 51?
(a) Rain.
(b) Sun.
(c) Thunderstorm.
(d) Fog.

3. What was the name of Brown's ship according to Chapter 20?
(a) The Wisconsin.
(b) The Gold Rush.
(c) The Pennsylvania.
(d) The Little Man.

4. Why was Twain on a different boat than the one he started he training on in Chapter 18?
(a) He was loaned out.
(b) He was fired.
(c) He was writing an article.
(d) He resigned form the other boat.

5. Where was Twain's brother hospitalized?
(a) Memphis
(b) Baton Rouge.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Huckleberry Finn do in Chapter 3?

3. What part of the river did Twain write about in Chapter 25?

4. What did Twain notice about the cities he was visiting in Chapter 57?

5. Why did the pilot of the boat where Twain was on in Chapter 19 get in trouble?

(see the answer key)

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