Mark Twain
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What's Mark Twain's real name?
Samuel Clemens
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Where does the story take place?
St. Petersburg, Missouri
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What did we make the rafts out of?
Paper.
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Both the stories in the book were written in what point of view?
First person.
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What does powwow mean?
A conference; discussion
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How did Samuel Clemens get the name Mark Twain?
He got it from working on the Mississippi as a riverboat pilot.
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Who does Huck runaway with?
Jim
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What does soliloquy mean?
unfolded; opened from a folded state
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Both narrators of the stories were _____?
Slaves
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Who is Huck's best friend at the beginning and end of the book?
At the beginning of the story it was no doubt Tom Sawyer but after his adventure with Jim he grows fond of him and is also closer to him.
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What was unique about Twain's writing?
He wrote in southern dialect; he wrote from experience; he wrote to capture the actual setting's reality to make it realistic
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How did Huck escape his father?
He faked his own murder.
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What does careened mean?
To turn a ship due to cleaning, caulking, or repair.
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"That white man over there says, 'Women need to be helped into carriages, lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere'" What was Sojourner Truth's opinion on this?
Truth said if this is the treatment women deserve why isn't it given to her also? Ain't she a women?
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Where did Huck find Jim?
Jackson Island.
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What kind of jobs did Twain has throughout his life? (Name at least 2)
A novelist; a humorist; a lecturer; a river boat pilot...etc.
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How do Widow Douglas and Mrs Watson differ in trying to "sivilize" Huck?
Widow Douglas is kindhearted and nice to Huck while she attempts to teach him unlike Mrs Watson who is strict and very mean.
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Currently what has Mark Twain's house become? Has it changed much?
A museum, with minor changes.
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How does Sojourner Truth compare herself to men?
She said she can work as much, eat as much and bear the lash as well.
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What is so ironic about the fact that Mrs Watson is very religious?
She owns slaves and that is against her religion.
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Why is Mark Twain's experience while living in the city of Hannibal is of significance to his writing?
That is where he grew up with his friends and had many experiences that influenced his ideas for "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" followed by "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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Why didn't Huck turn Jim in?
Huck refused to believe in society's racist ideas and befriended Jim, he found someone who truly cares about he unlike everyone else in his life.
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Why did Twain use the "n" word 219? Does this without question make him racist?
He used it because he wanted his story to be as realistic as possible and constant use of the "n" word was a reality at the time and he wanted to capture that. And no you can't automatically judge him and call him racist.
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In the autobiography, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" what is the conflict?
Douglass is a slave and he wanted to be freed.
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How was Twain's writing different then most at the time?
It was written in southern dialect, in an everyday language to those native of the south.
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