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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 decide to do after becoming a local celebrity?

2. What did Orion buy when he moved back to Hannibal?

3. What kind of epidemic spread through the town when Twain was 10?

4. What boat did Twain see while he was on assignment while working in Sacramento?

5. What was the name of the newspaper Twain wrote for in Nevada?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Twain took his mother to a minstrel show?

2. What did Suzy do to punish herself for hitting her sister?

3. How would Orion spend most of his days?

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

5. What happened when Twain swore in front of his wife for the first time?

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

7. What did Twain do to try and save his wife from dying, and how did it work out?

8. What did Grant say on his deathbed?

9. How did Twain say he felt after Jean's death?

10. What is Twain's opinion of Jim Gillis?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Security and safety are two themes that are touched on a number of times throughout the course of this book. What are some of these instances, and how does this affect the characters in these scenes?

Essay Topic 2

Death and mortality were two integral themes in Twain's life. What are some of the key examples of these theme, and how did the presence of this themes affect the main characters?

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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