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

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

3. What manufacturing city did Twain describe in Chapter 39?
(a) Louisville.
(b) Rome.
(c) Natchez.
(d) St. Louis.

4. What did Twain describe in Chapter 58?
(a) The Upper Mississippi.
(b) The lower Mississippi.
(c) The new type of fuels used in steamboats.
(d) Ports on the Mississippi.

5. What was the only thing left of Napoleon?
(a) A door.
(b) A chimney.
(c) The foundation.
(d) The roof.

Short Answer Questions

1. What saint did Twain mention in Chapter 42?

2. What did Twain find disgusting in Chapter 45?

3. Where did the man Twain describe in Chapter 48 sent correspondence from?

4. Who did Twain take the name Mark Twain from, according to Chapter 50?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did Twain doubt in Chapter 48?

4. What benefited laborers and plantation owners alike in Chapter 33?

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

6. What did Twain write about Southern speech in Chapter 44?

7. How did Twain compare steamboats to houses in Chapter 38?

8. What improvement did Twain say improved in New Orleans in Chapter 41?

9. What did Twain write about St. Anne?

10. What had become of many of the pilots Twain knew as a young man in Chapter 48?

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