Personal Life
What is Mark Twain's real name?
Samuel Clemins
What did newspapers report when Twain lived in isolation?
He was dead
What is the Grandest position of all?
Steamboat Pilot
Why was Mark Twain forced to leave school and become a printer's apprentice?
His dad died
What was Twain's first job once he moved to Nevada?
Reporter for a newspaper
What is the narrator's dream job?
Pilot
Mark Twain served as a pilot until when?
1862
What were the targets of Twain's jokes?
Technology and Political figures
Who possessed the power of life and death over all men and could hang anybody that offended him?
The father of the boy
When and where was Mark Twain born?
1835 in Hannibal, Missouri
How did Mark Twain write most of his heroes to act?
Poor and plain spoken
What is the doctor's and postmaster's sons become?
Mud clerks
Why did Mark Twain leave Virginia City?
A rival journalist was offended by a story and challenged him to a pistol duel
What troubles did he face in the late 1800s?
He founded a publishing house that had moderate success, then went bankrupt
How did the mood of the town change when the Steamboat arrived?
The town electrifies and becomes a busy place