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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Twain do to trick a phrenologist?

2. What musical display does Twain talk about after his hypnotist description?

3. Who suggested that Twain should write a book?

4. Where was Twain born?

5. How much was Twain paid as Orion's apprentice?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did Twain hear a man say at a banquet, and how did he feel about it?

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

5. Who published "Huckleberry Finn," and how successful was it?

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

7. What happened to Olivia when she was 16, and how was she cured?

8. What did Twain do with the money he found on the street?

9. How would Orion spend most of his days?

10. What character did Twain model after his cousin James Lampton?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the relationship between Twain and Olivia change throughout the course of their lives, and how did these changes affect the characters around them?

Essay Topic 2

Love is a very important theme and motivating factor in this book. Which characters are most affected by this theme? Which relationships are the most significant to the plot and why?

Essay Topic 3

Courage and fear are two attributes that are seen a number of times in this book. Where do they appear, and how does the presence of these feelings change the characters who were involved in those scenes?

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