A) The Journey of the Quaker City B) The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress C) Mark Twain's Great Pleasure Excursion D) Twain's Travel Chronicles
A) 1883 B) 1867 C) 1875 D) 1869
A) Santa Maria B) Quaker City (formerly USS Quaker City) C) Beagle D) Mayflower
A) A diplomatic tour for the U.S. government B) A 'Great Pleasure Excursion' through Europe and the Holy Land C) A military mission during the Civil War D) An exploration of uncharted territories
A) Mark Twain himself B) The U.S. Navy C) The Alta California newspaper D) The American Publishing Company
A) Fifty articles for the Alta California newspaper B) Free travel to Europe C) A lifetime supply of books D) A cash payment from readers
A) The importance of religious pilgrimage B) The benefits of industrialization C) Conflict between history and the modern world D) Advancements in maritime technology
A) He was deeply moved by its historical significance B) He thought it was a great example of storytelling C) He found it bland and pointless D) He believed it to be an accurate account of events
A) Henry David Thoreau's Walden B) Charles Dickens' American Notes C) Herman Melville's Typee D) William Cowper Prime's Tent Life in the Holy Land
A) Complete awe and admiration B) Indifference and lack of interest C) Unquestioning acceptance D) Equivocal, with both reverence and disillusionment
A) They could fit inside many American states and counties B) They were mythical and not based on historical fact C) They had populations larger than modern cities D) They were larger than most European countries
A) To share it with his fellow travelers B) To publish it as an anthology C) To collect it in a book to burn D) To rewrite it into a novel
A) The Jewish Synagogue B) The Greek Orthodox Church C) The Protestant Church D) The Catholic Church
A) Modernization of cities vs. preservation of ancient ruins B) Richness of Italian culture vs. poverty of its history C) Tourism growth vs. local resistance D) Poverty of the lay population vs. affluence of the church
A) Harper's Magazine B) The Atlantic Monthly, December 1869 C) Scribner's Monthly D) New York Evening Post
A) Twain's Travels B) The New Pilgrim's Progress C) Adventures in the Holy Land D) A Journey Through Time
A) 5,000 miles B) 10,000 miles C) Over 20,000 miles of land and sea D) 30,000 miles
A) Athens B) Paris C) Rome D) Venice
A) Across the Sahara Desert B) To the Great Wall of China C) To the Amazon Rainforest D) Through the Black Sea to Odessa, Sebastopol and Yalta
A) Minimized slang and vulgar language B) Wrote in a formal tone C) Included more poetry D) Used more complex vocabulary
A) The Innocents Abroad B) Life on the Mississippi C) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn D) Tom Sawyer
A) It was a political manifesto B) It was a serious historical account C) It focused on scientific discoveries D) It humorously chronicled his 'Great Pleasure Excursion'
A) His own experiences and observations B) Future predictions C) Historical facts D) Fictional stories |