A) John Adams B) Samuel Clemens C) William Shakespeare D) Thomas Jefferson
A) New York B) Missouri C) Texas D) California
A) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B) Moby Dick C) The Great Gatsby D) Pride and Prejudice
A) The Innocents Abroad B) Life on the Mississippi C) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court D) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
A) 1850 B) 1900 C) 1876 D) 1885
A) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer B) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court C) The Prince and the Pauper D) Huckleberry Finn
A) All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. B) To be or not to be, that is the question. C) The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. D) I have a dream.
A) Farmer B) Lawyer C) Doctor D) Riverboat Pilot
A) Olivia Langdon B) Emily Dickinson C) Harriet Beecher Stowe D) Louisa May Alcott
A) Huck Finn B) Tom Blankenship C) Joe Harper D) Ben Rogers
A) 1920 B) 1900 C) 1930 D) 1910
A) Los Angeles, California B) Chicago, Illinois C) Hartford, Connecticut D) New York City, New York
A) 1884 B) 1865 C) 1894 D) 1876
A) Typewriter B) Printing press C) Paige Compositor D) Steamboat engine
A) Charles Dudley Warner B) Grant Marsh C) Orion Clemens D) Henry Huttleston Rogers
A) Henry Clemens B) Orion Clemens C) Pleasant Hannibal Clemens D) Benjamin Clemens
A) Pudd'nhead Wilson B) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court C) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer D) King Leopold's Soliloquy
A) The Revolutionary War B) World War I C) The Spanish-American War D) The Civil War
A) Mississippi Queen B) Nevada Belle C) A. B. Chambers D) Hannibal Clipper
A) American Anti-Imperialist League B) International Typographical Union C) Virginia City Territorial Enterprise D) Society for Psychical Research
A) Explosion B) Colonialism C) Pneumonia D) Heart attack
A) 1867 B) 1864 C) 1870 D) 1861
A) New York B) The Mormon community in Salt Lake City C) A mining town in Virginia D) San Francisco
A) Miner on the Comstock Lode B) Journalist at Territorial Enterprise C) Stagecoach driver D) Teacher
A) Dan DeQuille B) Charles Langdon C) Mark Twain D) Samuel Clemens
A) "The Innocents Abroad" B) "Roughing It" C) "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" D) "Letter From Carson – re: Joe Goodman; party at Gov. Johnson's; music"
A) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer B) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court C) Roughing It D) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A) A trip to Hawaii B) His experiences in Angels Camp, California C) His journey across the Great Plains D) A Mediterranean cruise
A) The Saturday Press B) Territorial Enterprise C) New-York Tribune D) Sacramento Union
A) Photographer B) Travel agent C) Editor D) Reporter
A) Hartford, Connecticut B) Elmira, New York C) Buffalo, New York D) New York City
A) Frederick Douglass B) Sojourner Truth C) W.E.B. Du Bois D) Harriet Tubman
A) Self-pasting scrapbook B) Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments C) Paige typesetting machine D) History trivia game
A) Alexander Graham Bell B) George Westinghouse C) Nikola Tesla D) Thomas Edison
A) Honolulu, Hawaii B) Australia C) New Zealand D) Fiji
A) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court B) Life on the Mississippi C) The Innocents Abroad D) Following the Equator
A) Henry Rogers B) Dorothy Quick C) George Washington Cable D) Ina Coolbrith
A) Siege of Baler B) Bataan Death March C) Moro Crater Massacre D) Battle of Manila Bay
A) Henry Huttleston Rogers B) Thomas Lounsbury C) Charles L. Webster D) Ulysses S. Grant
A) Labor rights. B) Abolition of slavery. C) Prohibition. D) Women's suffrage.
A) $471,000 B) $600,000 C) $750,000 D) $300,000
A) Tulane University B) Newberry Library C) Buffalo & Erie County Public Library D) St. Louis Mercantile Library
A) Jean B) Clara C) Livy D) Susy
A) Collier's Weekly B) Harper's Bazaar C) The Atlantic Monthly D) Scribner's Magazine
A) The Ash Ranch Press B) The American Publishing Company C) Harper & Brothers D) Charles L. Webster and Company
A) 'He gave me permission to use it.' B) 'It was a gift from Captain Sellers himself.' C) 'I created it independently without any influence.' D) 'I confiscated the ancient mariner's discarded one.'
A) Louis XVI B) Robespierre C) Marat D) Danton
A) 'Sieur Louis de Conte' B) 'John Snook' C) 'Josh' D) 'Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass'
A) The San Francisco Alta California B) The New York Saturday Press C) The Territorial Enterprise D) The Virginia Daily Union
A) Presbyterian B) Methodist C) Catholic D) Baptist
A) 1895 B) 1884 C) 1907 D) 1916
A) Two B) One C) Four D) Three
A) Atlantic Monthly B) Scribner's Magazine C) Harper's Magazine D) The Century Magazine
A) On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History B) French Revolution C) The Life of John Sterling D) Sartor Resartus
A) Egypt B) South Africa C) the Congo Free State D) India
A) "Die Schrecken der Deutschen Sprache" B) "Die Freude der Italienischen Sprache" C) "Der Zauber des Englischen" D) "Das Wunder der Französischen Sprache"
A) Libertarian B) Independent C) Democratic D) Republican
A) Chronicling historical events B) Creating scientific literature C) Writing political essays D) Writing light, humorous verse
A) 1908 B) 1906 C) 1910 D) 1904
A) Extending copyright protection to the author's lifetime plus 50 years. B) Implementing stricter plagiarism laws C) Reducing taxes on authors' incomes D) Creating public domain status for older works
A) George Eliot B) Jane Austen C) James Fenimore Cooper D) Robert Louis Stevenson
A) Sansculotte B) Bourbon C) Jacobin D) Girondin
A) Socialism B) Keynesian economics C) Protectionism D) Laissez faire
A) Authors' Club, Beefsteak Club, Vagabonds B) Poets' Circle, Humorists' Haven C) Dramatists Guild, Comedy Enthusiasts D) Shakespeare Society, Literary Lions
A) Rendering colloquial speech B) Using complex, archaic language C) Focusing solely on abstract themes D) Writing in a formal, academic tone
A) Virginia Daily Union B) San Francisco Alta California C) New York Saturday Press D) Sacramento Union
A) president B) secretary C) vice-president D) treasurer
A) 'Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass' B) 'John Snook' C) 'Josh' D) 'Sieur Louis de Conte'
A) Oxford University B) Imperial College London C) Cambridge University D) University of London
A) Ajax B) Territorial Enterprise C) Alta California D) Quaker City
A) Polar Star Lodge No. 79 A.F.&A.M. B) St. Louis Lodge No. 50 C) Missouri Lodge No. 100 D) Nevada Lodge No. 75
A) The American Publishing Company B) Pennyroyal Press C) Charles L. Webster and Company D) Harper & Brothers
A) As a place devoid of any cultural significance. B) As an extraordinary country visited by the sun, where only man is vile. C) As a paradise untouched by human corruption. D) As a land of peace and prosperity.
A) Stormfield B) Hartford House C) Elmira Manor D) Buffalo Estate
A) Girondins B) Jacobins C) Royalists D) Sansculottes
A) Harvard University B) Princeton University C) Yale University D) Oxford University
A) Critical B) Enthusiastic C) Indifferent D) Supportive
A) Sagebrush School B) Virginia City Writers C) Silver-tongued Orators D) New York Press Society
A) Independents B) Mugwumps C) Democrats D) Republicans
A) Socialist B) Primarily liberal C) Centrist D) More conservative than liberal
A) An anonymous journalist from New Orleans B) Captain Isaiah Sellers C) A fictional character created by Mark Twain D) Samuel Clemens himself before adopting it
A) Adventure and exploration B) Friendship and loyalty C) Social commentary through role reversal D) Travel and discovery
A) 1990 B) 1980 C) 2010 D) 2000
A) Religious reform B) Military conquest C) Technology D) Agriculture
A) The Atlantic Monthly B) New York Saturday Press C) Virginia Daily Union D) San Francisco Alta California
A) Faded Page (Canada) B) Project Gutenberg C) Standard Ebooks D) LibriVox
A) They were written in an unknown language B) Many were lost or not recorded C) They were never spoken publicly D) They were all destroyed by critics
A) A school B) A Presbyterian Church C) A hospital D) A library
A) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B) The Mysterious Stranger C) Pudd'nhead Wilson D) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A) Personal political rights B) Economic freedoms C) Civil liberties D) Freedom of speech
A) 'Tom Sawyer' B) 'Life on the Mississippi' C) 'The Prince and the Pauper' D) 'Huckleberry Finn'
A) Vienna, Austria B) Belgravia, London C) Sanna, Sweden D) London, England |