A) Herman Melville B) Mark Twain C) Ernest Hemingway D) F. Scott Fitzgerald
A) Frankenstein's Monster B) 'Satan' or 'No. 44' C) Dracula D) The Invisible Man
A) 'St. Petersburg Fragment' B) 'Print Shop' version C) 'Schoolhouse Hill' or 'Hannibal' version D) 'Eseldorf' version
A) A village in Austria named Eseldorf, in 1702 B) Hannibal, Missouri, in 1908 C) St. Petersburg, Missouri, in 1897 D) Vienna, Austria, in 1490
A) 65,000 words B) 30,000 words C) 15,300 words D) 55,000 words
A) April 1902 B) June 1898 C) November 1900 D) September 1897
A) Their future careers B) Unfortunate events that will soon befall those they care about C) Their past lives D) The secrets of the universe
A) The significance of education B) Duality of the 'self', composed of the 'Waking Self' and the 'Dream Self' C) The power of love D) The importance of wealth
A) Bernard DeVoto B) Mark Twain C) John S. Tuckey D) Albert Bigelow Paine
A) A lost chapter of 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' B) The proper intended ending for 'The Mysterious Stranger' C) A new version of 'Tom Sawyer' D) An unpublished novel
A) He illustrated Twain's stories B) He published the original manuscripts C) He translated Twain's works into German D) He assisted Paine by adding passages not written by Twain
A) St. Petersburg in 1897 B) Vienna in 1908 C) Missouri in the year 1702 D) Austria in the year 1490
A) Hannibal B) Eseldorf C) Vienna D) St. Petersburg
A) 'God created everything perfectly.' B) 'The universe is governed by strict laws of morality.' C) 'Human beings are the center of the universe.' D) 'There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream—a grotesque and foolish dream.'
A) 'A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one.' B) 'God is all merciful and just.' C) 'God created humans in his own image.' D) 'God rewards the good and punishes the wicked.'
A) 'He grants eternal happiness to all people.' B) 'He teaches them advanced sciences.' C) 'He builds a utopian society for humans.' D) 'He causes plagues and natural disasters to destroy a small community, demonstrating the insignificance of mankind.'
A) The significance of education in human development B) The futility of mankind's existence and the duality of the self C) The power of love to overcome all obstacles D) The importance of wealth accumulation
A) 'Paine wrote an entirely new ending for the story.' B) 'Paine had tampered with and patched together three previously unfinished manuscripts.' C) 'Paine translated the original manuscripts into French.' D) 'Paine illustrated the original manuscripts.'
A) 'Copies of the printshop workers made by No. 44 to explore ideas of duality.' B) 'They are villains who oppose No. 44.' C) 'They are angels sent from heaven.' D) 'They are mythical creatures.'
A) 'Strange, indeed, that you should not have suspected that your universe and its contents were only dreams, visions, fiction!' B) 'Dreams are the result of divine intervention.' C) 'Dreams guide our actions in life.' D) 'Dreams are a reflection of reality.'
A) 'Justice is a fundamental principle of the universe.' B) 'God is the ultimate judge of all actions.' C) 'A God who mouths justice and invented hell—mouths mercy and invented hell—mouths Golden Rules, and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell.' D) 'God rewards those who follow his commandments.'
A) 'A God who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body.' B) 'Human life is the most precious gift from God.' C) 'Life on earth is a test for humans.' D) 'Humans are meant to live in harmony with nature.'
A) 'Humans are inherently moral beings.' B) 'God teaches us the difference between right and wrong.' C) 'Morality is a universal truth.' D) 'A God who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all.'
A) 'A God who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself.' B) 'Humans are responsible for their own actions.' C) 'God guides humanity towards enlightenment.' D) 'God created humans with free will.'
A) 'Humans are created in the image of God.' B) 'A God who, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him!' C) 'God deserves our reverence and admiration.' D) 'Worship is a fundamental duty of humans.'
A) 'Humans are the pinnacle of creation.' B) 'Every person has inherent worth and dignity.' C) 'The value of a person is determined by their actions.' D) 'People are of no value' and 'more could be made if we need them'.
A) 'Laughter is a divine gift to humans.' B) 'Laughter is a sign of foolishness.' C) 'The human race in all its poverty has only one truly effective weapon: Laughter. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.' D) 'Laughter should be avoided in serious matters.' |