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

2. What does Twain think about people?
(a) They are all generally good.
(b) They are all greedy.
(c) They are mostly the same.
(d) They are all different.

3. Where was Twain sent on assignment while working in Sacramento?
(a) New York.
(b) Honolulu.
(c) St. Louis.
(d) Los Angeles.

4. How much was Twain paid as Orion's apprentice?
(a) $3.50 a week.
(b) $3.50 a month.
(c) $35 a month.
(d) $350 a year.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Twain feel about his ancestry?

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

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

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

5. Who did Twain trick into seeing a minstrel show?

Short Essay Questions

1. How would Orion spend most of his days?

2. What did Twain do after he became a local celebrity?

3. What happened when Twain tried to help a man in the jail?

4. Why was Twain not able to be with Suzy when she died?

5. What superstition did people have about rotting hair, and what did Twain think about it?

6. What did Twain do to prove the inefficiency of a phrenologist?

7. What did Twain's mother's deep compassion lead her to do?

8. Who was Bret Harte?

9. What did Clara do to shield her mother from news of Jean's sickness?

10. What did Webb do when publishing Twain's first book?

(see the answer keys)

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