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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money did Twain find on the road before his trip to Cincinnati?
(a) $100.
(b) $5.
(c) $50.
(d) $10.

2. What made Twain a local celebrity?
(a) His literary guide.
(b) His coverage of the boat survivors.
(c) His local humor column.
(d) His interview with the President.

3. What is the name of the first publisher to turn Twain's first book down?
(a) Carmen.
(b) Carson.
(c) Carlton.
(d) Carrion.

4. What kinds of animals are not allowed by Twain's mother?
(a) Wounded.
(b) Rabid.
(c) Caged.
(d) Wild.

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

6. How was Twain recording his autobiography when he died?
(a) He dictated to a secretary.
(b) He wrote with a typewriter.
(c) He wrote with a quill pen.
(d) He wrote with pencil on scraps of paper.

7. How does Twain describe his older brother?
(a) The most happy and alarmed man.
(b) The most confused and innocent man.
(c) The most revered and deranged man.
(d) The most miserable and hopeful man.

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

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

10. Where was Dr. Peake from?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) New York.

11. Where did Twain meet the man who died in 1907?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) Missouri.
(c) California.
(d) New York.

12. What does Twain say his intimates rarely see in him?
(a) His spirituality.
(b) His genius.
(c) His kindness.
(d) His insecurity.

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

14. When does Twain want his book to be published?
(a) When his wife dies.
(b) After his death.
(c) In ten year editions.
(d) When his last living child dies.

15. Of what ailment did a faith doctor cure Twain's mother?
(a) A fever.
(b) A headache.
(c) A toothache.
(d) A stomach pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Twain when he first went to school?

2. What did Twain want to have happen to the editor who told him to resign?

3. Where was Twain born?

4. Who suggested that Twain should write a book?

5. What does Twain think could have happened if the person who died in 1907 had some education?

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