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

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

3. What did the pilot find to be a silly game?
(a) Traveling alone.
(b) Traveling with other writers.
(c) Traveling incognito.
(d) Asking for money.

4. What did the other pilots on Twain's boat do to him toward the end of his training?
(a) Made him question his own judgment.
(b) Made him question his training.
(c) Made him question his eye sight.
(d) Made him question his friends.

5. How did the man in competition with Twain for a girl became a hero to her?
(a) He bought her a ring.
(b) He offered her a horse.
(c) He joined the army.
(d) He almost died.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Twain think of the romance of the river in Chapter 28?

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

3. How did Twain see steamboat pilots in Chapter 14?

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

5. What did Twain have to learn besides the physical markers on the Mississippi?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Brown according to Chapter 18?

2. How was the the pilot's association treated based on Chapter 15?

3. What was Murel's gang according to Chapter 29?

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

5. What did Twain illustrate in Chapter 3?

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

7. What did Twain describe when he returned to the river in Chapter 22?

8. What was sounding according to Twain in Chapter 12?

9. Who was Stephen?

10. What did Bixby do that nobody thought was possible according to Chapter 7?

(see the answer keys)

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