Sam Clemens' worked as this, his first job in the employ of his own brother, Orion.
What is TYPESETTER (or PRINTER'S APPRENTICE)?
100
This character maintains a sibling rivalry throughout the novel.
Who is "SID"?
100
The first time that the reader meets Tom Sawyer, Aunt Polly accuses him of doing this.
What is "PLAYING HOOKEY (or SKIPPING SCHOOL)"?
100
What literary technique is employed by renaming Hannibal as St. Petersburg?
What is SATIRE?
100
CHIN FUNK
WHO IS "HUCK FINN"?
200
When Sam Clemens was born, this celestial object was visible in the night sky.
What is HALLEY'S COMET?
200
When this character asks Tom to identify two of Jesus' disciples, Tom names David and Goliath.
Who is "JUDGE THATCHER"?
200
A very bored Tom Sawyer disrupts the church service by playing with one of these.
What is "A PINCH BUG"?
200
In this novel, a boy's life in the 1840s is recalled by a 40 year old author in the 1870s, invoking this literary tool.
What is PERSPECTIVE (or POINT OF VIEW)?
200
ROBIN CONDOS
WHO IS "DOC ROBINSON"?
300
This event effectively ended Twain's career as a Mississippi river boat pilot.
What is "THE CIVIL WAR"?
300
This is the ethnic moniker by whom Mr. Jones is better known.
What is "THE WELSHMAN"?
300
Of the three "pirates," this boy was "the Red-Handed."
Who is "HUCK"?
300
In the novel, even Injun Joe is eulogized at his funeral, an example of this literary technique.
What is SATIRE?
300
FEEL TRAMPLED
WHO IS "ALFRED TEMPLE"?
400
Following a trip to the Holy Land, Twain was inspired to write this work, a humorous collection of travel letters.
What is THE INNOCENTS ABROAD?
400
This character was modeled after Benson Blankenship, a real-life resident of Hannibal, MO.
WHO IS "MUFF POTTER"?
400
When Huck runs away from the Widow Douglas, Tom convinces him to return and offers him a chance to become part of Tom's gang of these.
What are ROBBERS?
400
Tom's belief that one needs to be respectable to be a robber is an example of this type of humor.
What is SATIRE?
400
JOCKS IN SANDALS
WHAT IS "JACKSON'S ISLAND"?
500
He filmed Mark Twain at his home in Redding, Connecticut in 1909 and then used part of the footage in a two-reel motion picture version of "The Prince and the Pauper."
WHO IS "THOMAS EDISON"?
500
Tom was engaged to her prior to becoming engaged to Rebecca Thatcher.
WHO IS "AMY LAWRENCE"?
500
While Tom is down with the measles, this comes to town.
What is a religious revival?
500
This adventure would need to be cut from the novel if Tom Sawyer were a first-person narrator.