A) 'The Great Frog Race' B) 'Frog Tales from California' C) 'The Notorious Jumper of Calaveras County' D) 'Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog'
A) An unnamed friend B) Charles Henry Webb C) Artemus Ward D) Bret Harte
A) In a mining camp in Boeotia B) On a train heading to Nevada C) In a saloon in San Francisco D) At the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California
A) He loves to gamble and will bet on anything B) He is an expert frog trainer C) He is known for his storytelling D) He is a famous horse jockey
A) 'Jimbo' B) 'Froggy' C) 'Dan'l Webster' D) 'Calaveras'
A) Three months B) One week C) Six weeks D) Two days
A) $100 B) $40 C) $60 D) $20
A) By distracting Jim during the jump B) By pouring lead shot down Dan'l's throat C) By bribing the judges D) By using a faster frog
A) Confronts Simon Wheeler about the incident B) Accepts the loss and leaves town C) Finds another frog to train immediately D) Chases after the stranger but never catches him
A) 'About a yellow, one-eyed, stubby-tailed cow that Jim had owned.' B) The true story of Leonidas W. Smiley C) A detailed history of Calaveras County D) Another frog-jumping contest tale
A) 'Frog Tales from the West' B) 'Mark Twain's Best' C) 'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches' D) 'Twain's Greatest Stories'
A) 10,000 copies B) 1,000 copies C) 5,000 copies D) 500 copies
A) They were issued in seven colors: blue, brown, green, lavender, plum, red, and terra-cotta B) They featured images of frogs C) They included a map of Calaveras County D) They had gold leaf edges
A) Discontinued publishing the story B) Wrote a sequel to the original story C) Published it in multiple languages at once D) Back-translated the story into English, retaining the French grammatical structure and syntax
A) It was purely fictional and never occurred B) It only happened once, in Calaveras County C) It was an allegory for the gold rush D) It happened both in Angels Camp and in Boeotia a couple of thousand years ago
A) 'The frog episode was indeed part of ancient Greek mythology.' B) 'Professor Sidgwick had not claimed it was a Greek tale; he merely transferred the incident to classic Greece.' C) 'Sidgwick admitted to plagiarizing Twain's work.' D) 'The Greek tale was older than his story.'
A) 'It is full of damnable errors of grammar and deadly inconsistencies of spelling because I did not read the proofs.' B) 'The illustrations were poorly done.' C) 'He regretted including it in his first book.' D) 'The story was entirely fictional and exaggerated.' |