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