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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. To what site is the midnight excursion in Athens?
(a) The Acropolis.
(b) The Oracle at Delphi.
(c) The Parthenon.
(d) The Gate of Neptune.

2. How long is the time between registration and the event?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) A week.
(c) A month.
(d) A day.

3. 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.

4. What does Twain find mundane about Gibraltar?
(a) Its legends.
(b) Its guides.
(c) Its history.
(d) Its people.

5. What is the name of the renowned burial ground for romantically famous people in France?
(a) Pere la Chaise.
(b) Rue de la Temps.
(c) Arc de Triomphe.
(d) Bois de Boulogne.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the more lively sources of entertainment offered on the ship?

2. How long is the train ride through France?

3. What was the church member's dying wish?

4. In which cities does Twain admit not even taking notes?

5. Why is the gondola ride a letdown?

Short Essay Questions

1. What observation does Twain make that seems unlikely in the heavily Christian city of Rome?

2. Why does Twain use an advertisement, rather than his own words, to describe the grand excursion?

3. Mark Twain chooses to insert some of his well-known humor in his story about the group's capers in Athens. What purpose do you think the humor has in this chapter?

4. Compare/contrast Versailles with Faubourg St. Antoine.

5. In Chapter 13, the group hires a tour guide to show them famous sites. Despite being tasked with this duty, the guide seems more interested in obtaining money by taking the tourists shopping and earning a commission. He even manages to keep them from making the Louvre before closing. What does this say about the tour guides in Paris, and how might this affect the group's hiring of other tour guides in the future?

6. On a visit to the Capuchin Convent, the group is led into a vault decorated with the bones of ancient deceased monks. What is it about this vault that so fascinates Twain?

7. Twain has a moment of questioned faith in Chapter 6. What inspires this questioning? Is he questioning his faith or the object? Why does he question at all?

8. Stuck waiting in the tiny town of Annunciation, Twain and his companions decide to attend the theater to see a famous singer perform. What happens at the performance? What does this event do for Twain's opinion of the people who have attended?

9. Compare/contrast American and European work ethics, as described by Twain in Chapter 19.

10. Twain accompanies his group to the Coliseum. As he watches them scrabble for pieces of the huge building, he finds a playbill where a woman invites a man on a secret date. Why is this piece of trash more interesting to Twain than the souvenirs his friends seek?

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