A) 'Frog Tales from California' B) 'Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog' C) 'The Notorious Jumper of Calaveras County' D) 'The Great Frog Race'
A) Artemus Ward B) An unnamed friend C) Bret Harte D) Charles Henry Webb
A) In a saloon in San Francisco B) In a mining camp in Boeotia C) At the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California D) On a train heading to Nevada
A) He loves to gamble and will bet on anything B) He is a famous horse jockey C) He is known for his storytelling D) He is an expert frog trainer
A) 'Froggy' B) 'Jimbo' C) 'Dan'l Webster' D) 'Calaveras'
A) Three months B) One week C) Six weeks D) Two days
A) $20 B) $100 C) $40 D) $60
A) By bribing the judges B) By distracting Jim during the jump C) By using a faster frog D) By pouring lead shot down Dan'l's throat
A) Accepts the loss and leaves town B) Finds another frog to train immediately C) Confronts Simon Wheeler about the incident D) Chases after the stranger but never catches him
A) 'About a yellow, one-eyed, stubby-tailed cow that Jim had owned.' B) A detailed history of Calaveras County C) Another frog-jumping contest tale D) The true story of Leonidas W. Smiley
A) 'Frog Tales from the West' B) 'Mark Twain's Best' C) 'Twain's Greatest Stories' D) 'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches'
A) 1,000 copies B) 10,000 copies C) 5,000 copies D) 500 copies
A) They had gold leaf edges B) They included a map of Calaveras County C) They were issued in seven colors: blue, brown, green, lavender, plum, red, and terra-cotta D) They featured images of frogs
A) Discontinued publishing the story B) Wrote a sequel to the original story C) Published it in multiple languages at once D) Back-translated the story into English, retaining the French grammatical structure and syntax
A) It was purely fictional and never occurred B) It happened both in Angels Camp and in Boeotia a couple of thousand years ago C) It was an allegory for the gold rush D) It only happened once, in Calaveras County
A) 'Professor Sidgwick had not claimed it was a Greek tale; he merely transferred the incident to classic Greece.' B) 'The Greek tale was older than his story.' C) 'The frog episode was indeed part of ancient Greek mythology.' D) 'Sidgwick admitted to plagiarizing Twain's work.'
A) 'He regretted including it in his first book.' B) 'The illustrations were poorly done.' C) 'It is full of damnable errors of grammar and deadly inconsistencies of spelling because I did not read the proofs.' D) 'The story was entirely fictional and exaggerated.' |