A) 1900 B) 1894 C) 1895 D) 1896
A) Mark Twain B) Jean Francois Alden C) Sieur Louis de Conte D) Samuel Langhorne Clemens
A) Three B) Five C) Four D) Two
A) With his name B) Signed by Jean Francois Alden C) Under a pseudonym other than Mark Twain D) Anonymously
A) Translator B) Editor C) First-person narrator D) Historian
A) Domrémy, France B) Paris, France C) Rouen, France D) Neufchâteau, France
A) Eighteen B) Fifteen C) Sixteen D) Seventeen
A) Control over the French army B) Remission of taxes on Domrémy C) A title of nobility D) Land in Paris
A) Five and a half months for imprisonment, three months for trial B) Three months for imprisonment, two months for trial C) Two months for imprisonment, one month for trial D) Six months for imprisonment, four months for trial
A) A peace treaty with the Burgundians B) An agreement to leave France C) A document confessing herself a sorceress and a dealer with devils D) A letter of allegiance to the English
A) His daughter Susy Clemens at age 17 B) A sculpture in a French museum C) An artist's interpretation D) A historical painting
A) Ted Gioia B) G. B. Shaw C) Andrew Lang D) Bernard DeVoto
A) It was a spontaneous project with minimal research B) He wrote it as a light-hearted endeavor C) It cost him more thinking and planning than any other book D) It was written quickly without much thought
A) Personal letters from Joan of Arc B) Contemporary newspaper articles C) Jules Michelet's Histoire de France and Jules Quicherat's Proces D) Interviews with surviving witnesses
A) Humor and wit B) Sarcasm and irony C) Pathos, not flippancy D) Dry and factual
A) G. B. Shaw B) Bernard DeVoto C) Andrew Lang D) Maxwell Geismar
A) He called it 'mawkish' B) He found it historically inaccurate C) He praised its humor D) He considered it Twain's best work
A) The comedic elements B) Its placement in Twain's body of works given his views C) The detailed historical accuracy D) The lack of character development |