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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Twain compare pilot's loss of romance toward the Mississippi to?
(a) To the food losing their mystery to farmers.
(b) To the ocean losing its mystery to sea captains.
(c) To the human body losing its mystery for doctors.
(d) To gravity losing its mystery for an aviator.

3. How long were steamboat pilots shifts?
(a) 4 hours.
(b) 8 hours.
(c) 12 hours.
(d) 6 hours.

4. Why was Twain jealous of the boy he knew in his town?
(a) He was wealthy.
(b) He went to work on steamboats.
(c) He married the town's prettiest girl.
(d) He was a better writer than him.

5. What location did Huck want to bring Jim to in Chapter 3?
(a) Paris.
(b) Cairo.
(c) Granada.
(d) Lisbon.

6. What trainer was hard on Twain in Chapter 18?
(a) Bixby.
(b) Robert.
(c) Stephen.
(d) Brown.

7. How long is the Mississippi River according to Chapter 1?
(a) 750 miles.
(b) 1,300 miles.
(c) 2,300 miles.
(d) 300 miles.

8. What was the nickname of the trainees on Twain's new boat in Chapter 18?
(a) Pup.
(b) Kid.
(c) Cub.
(d) Baby.

9. What was the name of the town from which the two feuding families were from?
(a) Montrouse.
(b) Salem.
(c) Compromise.
(d) Salsburg.

10. What town was next to the area Twain wrote had been important to the Union in Chapter 26?
(a) New Grinwitch.
(b) New Berlin.
(c) New Madrid.
(d) New Paris.

11. What changed Twain's life in Chapter 21?
(a) The train.
(b) His marriage.
(c) War.
(d) Peace.

12. What was causing the impression of a bluff reef in Chapter 9?
(a) Wind.
(b) An alligator.
(c) Rain.
(d) A trunk.

13. Who was the first settler to see the Mississippi?
(a) Cortez.
(b) de Vama.
(c) DiMaggio.
(d) DeSoto.

14. What city marked one of the strongest changes in traits and speeches, according to Chapter 22?
(a) Bayou.
(b) Baton Rouge.
(c) Saint Louis.
(d) New Orleans.

15. Who borrowed money from everyone in Chapter 17?
(a) Mark.
(b) Stephen.
(c) Robert.
(d) Harry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who helped complete the pilot's association monopoly?

2. Who told Marquette that the Mississippi was dangerous?

3. How did the man in competition with Twain for a girl became a hero to her?

4. What was the due of the pilot's association?

5. What towns did Twain write about in Chapter 23?

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