A vocabulary word used in "Stage Fright" that describes how earnestly the governor's wife watched Mark Twain.
What is intently?
100
Abler, Motley, Soapy Sall, Buffalo Bill, Cleveland, and Sour Mash
What are the names of some of Mark Twain's cats?
100
When a person requests a written statement that a package has been received, he is asking for this.
What is R-E-C-E-I-P-T?
100
Papa's appearance has been described many times, but very incorrectly.
What is an unnecessary comma?
100
He has a wonderfully shaped head and profile.
Who is Susy Clemens?
200
A vocabulary word that Susy uses to describe her father when he couldn't understand the problem with the window alarm
What is impatient?
200
The original title of "My Papa, Mark Twain"
What is "Papa: An Intimate Biography of Mark Twain"?
200
If you drive over a nail, it might do this to your tire.
What is P-I-E-R-C-E?
200
In short, he is a very extrordinarily fine looking man.
What is a spelling error (E-X-T-R-A-O-R-D-I-N-A-R-I-L-Y)?
200
If you've opened the window, why of course the alarm will ring!
Who is Livy Clemens?
300
Mark Twain feels this toward anyone who makes his first appearance before an audience, or a feeling of compassion.
What is sympathy?
300
The room in Twain's house that had problems with the alarm system.
What is the mahogany room?
300
Synonyms for this spelling word are odd, strange, and mysterious.
What is W-E-I-R-D?
300
Papa very seldom writes a passage without some humor in it somewhere and I don't think he ever will.
What is a run-on sentence (missing a comma)?
300
I know you not woman.
Who is the pauper?
400
The vocabulary word that Susy uses to describe her father's impressive or noticeable appearance.
What is striking?
400
The year Susy Clemens's complete biography of her father was published.
What is 1985?
400
The spelling word that means outside your own country or having to do with other countries.
What is F-O-R-E-I-G-N?
400
He has the mind of an author exactly, some of the simplest things he can't understand.
What is a comma splice?
400
I was so sick that there wasn't any left for those other two hundred passengers.
Who is Mark Twain?
500
The vocabulary word used in "My Papa, Mark Twain" that means a Republican who refused to support the party candidate in the 1884 election
What is a mugwump?
500
When Susy Clemens says her father told her "that he could listen to himself talk for hours without getting tired," he uses this literary device.
What is a hyperbole?
500
When this happened at Vicksburg in 1863, it was considered the turning point of the Civil War (or the spelling word that means surrounding a place by enemy forces trying to capture it).
What is S-I-E-G-E?
500
That enoyed me, that enoyed me greatly, because it trobles me to have so few people know papa, I mean realy know him.
What are Susy's spelling errors (A-N-N-O-Y-E-D, T-R-O-U-B-L-E-S, and R-E-A-L-L-Y) in a run-on sentence?
500
That's what I've opened it for, why I just went down to see if it would ring!