A) Herman Melville B) Mark Twain C) F. Scott Fitzgerald D) Ernest Hemingway
A) Dracula B) 'Satan' or 'No. 44' C) The Invisible Man D) Frankenstein's Monster
A) 'Schoolhouse Hill' or 'Hannibal' version B) 'St. Petersburg Fragment' C) 'Print Shop' version D) 'Eseldorf' version
A) A village in Austria named Eseldorf, in 1702 B) Hannibal, Missouri, in 1908 C) Vienna, Austria, in 1490 D) St. Petersburg, Missouri, in 1897
A) 65,000 words B) 55,000 words C) 15,300 words D) 30,000 words
A) September 1897 B) April 1902 C) June 1898 D) November 1900
A) Their future careers B) The secrets of the universe C) Unfortunate events that will soon befall those they care about D) Their past lives
A) The power of love B) Duality of the 'self', composed of the 'Waking Self' and the 'Dream Self' C) The significance of education D) The importance of wealth
A) John S. Tuckey B) Mark Twain C) Bernard DeVoto D) Albert Bigelow Paine
A) A new version of 'Tom Sawyer' B) A lost chapter of 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' C) An unpublished novel D) The proper intended ending for 'The Mysterious Stranger'
A) He assisted Paine by adding passages not written by Twain B) He translated Twain's works into German C) He published the original manuscripts D) He illustrated Twain's stories
A) Austria in the year 1490 B) St. Petersburg in 1897 C) Missouri in the year 1702 D) Vienna in 1908
A) Vienna B) Hannibal C) Eseldorf D) St. Petersburg
A) 'The universe is governed by strict laws of morality.' B) 'There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream—a grotesque and foolish dream.' C) 'God created everything perfectly.' D) 'Human beings are the center of the universe.'
A) 'God is all merciful and just.' B) 'A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one.' C) 'God rewards the good and punishes the wicked.' D) 'God created humans in his own image.'
A) 'He grants eternal happiness to all people.' B) 'He builds a utopian society for humans.' C) 'He causes plagues and natural disasters to destroy a small community, demonstrating the insignificance of mankind.' D) 'He teaches them advanced sciences.'
A) The significance of education in human development B) The power of love to overcome all obstacles C) The futility of mankind's existence and the duality of the self D) The importance of wealth accumulation
A) 'Paine had tampered with and patched together three previously unfinished manuscripts.' B) 'Paine illustrated the original manuscripts.' C) 'Paine translated the original manuscripts into French.' D) 'Paine wrote an entirely new ending for the story.'
A) 'They are villains who oppose No. 44.' B) 'They are angels sent from heaven.' C) 'They are mythical creatures.' D) 'Copies of the printshop workers made by No. 44 to explore ideas of duality.'
A) 'Dreams are a reflection of reality.' B) 'Strange, indeed, that you should not have suspected that your universe and its contents were only dreams, visions, fiction!' C) 'Dreams guide our actions in life.' D) 'Dreams are the result of divine intervention.'
A) 'God rewards those who follow his commandments.' B) 'A God who mouths justice and invented hell—mouths mercy and invented hell—mouths Golden Rules, and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell.' C) 'God is the ultimate judge of all actions.' D) 'Justice is a fundamental principle of the universe.'
A) 'Life on earth is a test for humans.' B) 'Humans are meant to live in harmony with nature.' C) 'Human life is the most precious gift from God.' D) 'A God who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body.'
A) 'A God who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all.' B) 'Humans are inherently moral beings.' C) 'Morality is a universal truth.' D) 'God teaches us the difference between right and wrong.'
A) 'Humans are responsible for their own actions.' B) 'God guides humanity towards enlightenment.' C) 'God created humans with free will.' D) 'A God who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself.'
A) 'Worship is a fundamental duty of humans.' B) 'Humans are created in the image of God.' C) 'A God who, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him!' D) 'God deserves our reverence and admiration.'
A) 'Every person has inherent worth and dignity.' B) 'People are of no value' and 'more could be made if we need them'. C) 'Humans are the pinnacle of creation.' D) 'The value of a person is determined by their actions.'
A) 'Laughter is a sign of foolishness.' B) 'Laughter should be avoided in serious matters.' C) 'The human race in all its poverty has only one truly effective weapon: Laughter. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.' D) 'Laughter is a divine gift to humans.' |