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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 give to a bum as a child according to Chapter 56?
(a) Clothes.
(b) Matches.
(c) Food.
(d) Money.

2. What other work did the man Twain took his name from produce after Twain took his name?
(a) News bulletins.
(b) Funny pieces.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Steamboat reviews.

3. What did the men on Twain's boat think of him wanting to disembark at Napoleon in Chapter 32?
(a) They found it alarming.
(b) They found it sad.
(c) They found it hilarious.
(d) They found it pathetic.

4. What was Uncle Remus according to Chapter 47?
(a) A judge.
(b) A steamboat captain.
(c) A baker.
(d) A writer.

5. What did Twain compare steamboats to in Chapter 38?
(a) An average fancy house.
(b) An average train.
(c) An average hotel.
(d) A large farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Twain see Bixby in Chapter 48?

2. What battlefield did Twain describe in Chapter 34?

3. What did Twain think of the correspondence of the man in Chapter 48?

4. What did Twain think of New Orleans graveyards in Chapter 42?

5. Where was Twain's friend when he saw the body of the second soldier?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Twain explain about his pen name in Chapter 50?

2. What did the carpenter in Chapter 55 tell Twain?

3. Who was Ritter and what did he do in Chapter 31?

4. What happened to The Gold Dust in Chapter 37?

5. What did Twain say about his encounter with a friend who was an undertaker according to Chapter 43?

6. What was the manufacturing city, Natchez, like as described in Chapter 39?

7. What did Twain remark about cities and towns along the Upper Mississippi in Chapter 58?

8. What anecdote did a professor tell to Twain Chapter 36?

9. About how many people died in Vicksburg because of the war according to Chapter 35?

10. What did the homeless man do in Chapter 56?

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