A) Mark Twain's Great Pleasure Excursion B) Twain's Travel Chronicles C) The Journey of the Quaker City D) The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress
A) 1875 B) 1869 C) 1883 D) 1867
A) Santa Maria B) Quaker City (formerly USS Quaker City) C) Beagle D) Mayflower
A) A 'Great Pleasure Excursion' through Europe and the Holy Land B) A military mission during the Civil War C) An exploration of uncharted territories D) A diplomatic tour for the U.S. government
A) The Alta California newspaper B) The U.S. Navy C) The American Publishing Company D) Mark Twain himself
A) Free travel to Europe B) A lifetime supply of books C) Fifty articles for the Alta California newspaper D) A cash payment from readers
A) Advancements in maritime technology B) Conflict between history and the modern world C) The benefits of industrialization D) The importance of religious pilgrimage
A) He thought it was a great example of storytelling B) He found it bland and pointless C) He was deeply moved by its historical significance D) He believed it to be an accurate account of events
A) Herman Melville's Typee B) Henry David Thoreau's Walden C) Charles Dickens' American Notes D) William Cowper Prime's Tent Life in the Holy Land
A) Indifference and lack of interest B) Complete awe and admiration C) Unquestioning acceptance D) Equivocal, with both reverence and disillusionment
A) They could fit inside many American states and counties B) They were larger than most European countries C) They were mythical and not based on historical fact D) They had populations larger than modern cities
A) To share it with his fellow travelers B) To publish it as an anthology C) To rewrite it into a novel D) To collect it in a book to burn
A) The Catholic Church B) The Jewish Synagogue C) The Protestant Church D) The Greek Orthodox Church
A) Poverty of the lay population vs. affluence of the church B) Tourism growth vs. local resistance C) Richness of Italian culture vs. poverty of its history D) Modernization of cities vs. preservation of ancient ruins
A) New York Evening Post B) Scribner's Monthly C) Harper's Magazine D) The Atlantic Monthly, December 1869
A) The New Pilgrim's Progress B) Adventures in the Holy Land C) Twain's Travels D) A Journey Through Time
A) 30,000 miles B) 5,000 miles C) 10,000 miles D) Over 20,000 miles of land and sea
A) Paris B) Athens C) Venice D) Rome
A) Through the Black Sea to Odessa, Sebastopol and Yalta B) To the Amazon Rainforest C) To the Great Wall of China D) Across the Sahara Desert
A) Minimized slang and vulgar language B) Wrote in a formal tone C) Included more poetry D) Used more complex vocabulary
A) Tom Sawyer B) The Innocents Abroad C) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn D) Life on the Mississippi
A) It humorously chronicled his 'Great Pleasure Excursion' B) It was a political manifesto C) It was a serious historical account D) It focused on scientific discoveries
A) His own experiences and observations B) Future predictions C) Fictional stories D) Historical facts |