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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Twain promise his instructor?
(a) $500 out of his first wages.
(b) $800 out of his first wages.
(c) $50 out of his first wages.
(d) $250 out of his first wages.

2. When was the Mississippi first seen by a settler?
(a) 1552.
(b) 1572.
(c) 1542.
(d) 1562.

3. What did Twain become towards the end of his pilot training?
(a) Full of himself.
(b) A lisenced pilot.
(c) Physically strong.
(d) Humble.

4. What did the steamboat pilots have to do to navigate the Mississippi according to Chapter 9?
(a) Go straight and never deviate.
(b) Follow maps.
(c) Read the river.
(d) Follow buoys.

5. What task does Twain describe in Chapter 12?
(a) Orming.
(b) Roaming.
(c) Sounding.
(d) Graming.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Twain on a different boat than the one he started he training on in Chapter 18?

2. What was causing the impression of a bluff reef in Chapter 9?

3. What did Bixby have to pilot the boat around in Chapter 7?

4. Where was Twain's brother hospitalized?

5. What did pilots use to perform the task described in Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Stephen?

2. What silly game was Twain playing in Chapter 24?

3. What did Twain note about changes in the river in Chapter 17?

4. What Twain explain about his early attempts to work on a steamboat according to Chapter 4?

5. Why would W have killed Twain in Chapter 8?

6. What did a pilot watch from the pilot cabin in Chapter 26?

7. What does Twain realize about what he has to learn in Chapter 10?

8. How does Mark Twain describe the river in Chapter 1?

9. What was the bluff reef in Chapter 9?

10. What does Twain paint a picture of in Chapter 4?

(see the answer keys)

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