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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What character is Twain supposed to be in his sister's play?
(a) A cowboy.
(b) A cougar.
(c) A bear.
(d) An Indian.

2. What is the name of the slave that inspired Jim in Huckleberry Finn?
(a) Preacher Dave.
(b) Brother Dan.
(c) Father David.
(d) Uncle Daniel.

3. What does Twain think could have happened if the person who died in 1907 had some education?
(a) He could have delivered great sermons.
(b) He could have been a successful business man.
(c) He could have taught at colleges.
(d) He could have been a famous writer.

4. What did phrenologists tell people about?
(a) Their personality.
(b) Their health.
(c) Their past.
(d) Their future.

5. What happens to Twain on his first day of school?
(a) He is put ahead a few classes.
(b) He is sent home.
(c) He is teased.
(d) He is whipped.

6. What did Twain decide to do after becoming a local celebrity?
(a) Take photographs.
(b) Teach seminars.
(c) Give lectures.
(d) Write a book.

7. What does Twain bring home from caves as a young boy?
(a) Mud.
(b) Bats.
(c) Stalactites.
(d) Cave spiders.

8. How old was Twain when he first went to school?
(a) 6.
(b) 9.
(c) 8.
(d) 7.

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

10. What did Twain's father die of?
(a) Pneumonic plague.
(b) Palsy.
(c) Pleurisy.
(d) Pneumonia.

11. What book did Webb publish for Twain?
(a) "Sketches of a River Boy."
(b) "Tom Sawyer."
(c) "The Prince and the Pauper."
(d) "The Jumping Frog."

12. How did Twain become the star of a hypnotist show?
(a) He pretended to be a hypnotist.
(b) He learned the mesmerizer's trade.
(c) He was the only one to be truly hypnotized.
(d) He pretended to be mesmerized.

13. How did Higbie get a job?
(a) He put in an application under Twain's name.
(b) He volunteered his labor at first.
(c) He paid a man to watch him work for a day.
(d) He let the employers bid on him.

14. What does Twain do with his daily dose of pain killer?
(a) Pours it out the window.
(b) Feeds it to the cat.
(c) Gives it to his brother.
(d) Takes it obediently.

15. How old was Twain when he began smoking?
(a) 9.
(b) 15.
(c) 13.
(d) 11.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Twain say his mother thought of the trouble he caused as a boy?

2. How did Twain study the human race?

3. When does Twain want his book to be published?

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

5. How old is Twain's mother when she dies?

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