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