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