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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 43-45.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Twain do to trick a phrenologist?
(a) Gave a fake name.
(b) Changed the color of his hair.
(c) Lied about his age.
(d) Paid extra money.

2. How does Twain feel about his ancestry?
(a) Embarrassed.
(b) Vain.
(c) Confused.
(d) Amused.

3. How did Dr. Newton say he cured Olivia?
(a) He bled her.
(b) He prayed.
(c) He made a special medicine.
(d) Electricity flowed from his body.

4. How many people came to the lecture Fuller set up for Twain?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1000.
(c) 2500.
(d) 1500.

5. What kind of epidemic spread through the town when Twain was 10?
(a) Typhoid.
(b) Measles.
(c) Consumption.
(d) Polio.

Short Answer Questions

1. What made Twain a local celebrity?

2. How old was Suzy when she began to write about her father?

3. How many days had the people survived on the boat that Twain saw while on assignment?

4. What was Elisha Bliss's occupation?

5. What did Fuller want Twain to lecture about?

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