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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 41 | Chapter 42.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What fact humiliates Twain in Chapter 23?
(a) That a "cultivated Negro" is more famous than he.
(b) That a "cultivated Negro" has more friends than he.
(c) That a "cultivated Negro" is richer than he.
(d) That a "cultivated Negro" is more intelligent than he.

2. For what does the advertisement in the beginning of the story encourage people to register?
(a) The great pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land.
(b) The best tutor available in the United States.
(c) The Christmas census.
(d) The lottery of a lifetime.

3. What are the spinning dancers of a religious healing nature called?
(a) Oracles.
(b) Whirling dervishes.
(c) Dancing dervishes.
(d) Spinners.

4. Who do the travelers invite onto the ship to teach them the proper way to act when presented to the Emperor?
(a) The emperor's adviser.
(b) The town apothecary.
(c) Odessa's oldest citizen.
(d) The Odessa consul.

5. Whose legend does the carriage driver relate?
(a) Count Leonardo Gennaro Guido Alphonso di Genova.
(b) Count Lorenzo Gennaro Guido Alphonso di Genova.
(c) Count Luigi Gennaro Guido Alphonso di Genova.
(d) Count Lucio Gennaro Guido Alphonso di Genova.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Twain compare Versailles?

2. Why wouldn't Heloise marry Abelard?

3. What does the driver in Chapter 21 suck on for about an hour?

4. What is the first Asian city of biblical interest?

5. Who in France claim to be barbers?

(see the answer key)

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