A) 1900 B) 1896 C) 1894 D) 1895
A) Samuel Langhorne Clemens B) Jean Francois Alden C) Mark Twain D) Sieur Louis de Conte
A) Three B) Five C) Two D) Four
A) Anonymously B) Signed by Jean Francois Alden C) With his name D) Under a pseudonym other than Mark Twain
A) Editor B) Historian C) Translator D) First-person narrator
A) Neufchâteau, France B) Domrémy, France C) Rouen, France D) Paris, France
A) Eighteen B) Sixteen C) Seventeen D) Fifteen
A) Control over the French army B) Remission of taxes on Domrémy C) A title of nobility D) Land in Paris
A) Two months for imprisonment, one month for trial B) Five and a half months for imprisonment, three months for trial C) Six months for imprisonment, four months for trial D) Three months for imprisonment, two months for trial
A) A peace treaty with the Burgundians B) A letter of allegiance to the English C) A document confessing herself a sorceress and a dealer with devils D) An agreement to leave France
A) A sculpture in a French museum B) His daughter Susy Clemens at age 17 C) A historical painting D) An artist's interpretation
A) Ted Gioia B) Andrew Lang C) Bernard DeVoto D) G. B. Shaw
A) He wrote it as a light-hearted endeavor B) It was a spontaneous project with minimal research C) It was written quickly without much thought D) It cost him more thinking and planning than any other book
A) Jules Michelet's Histoire de France and Jules Quicherat's Proces B) Contemporary newspaper articles C) Interviews with surviving witnesses D) Personal letters from Joan of Arc
A) Humor and wit B) Pathos, not flippancy C) Dry and factual D) Sarcasm and irony
A) Andrew Lang B) Maxwell Geismar C) Bernard DeVoto D) G. B. Shaw
A) He found it historically inaccurate B) He considered it Twain's best work C) He called it 'mawkish' D) He praised its humor
A) The comedic elements B) The lack of character development C) Its placement in Twain's body of works given his views D) The detailed historical accuracy |