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