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The American Bard
Life on the River
Mark Twain is Born
Ordinary American Speech
The Old Man in a White Suit
100
This is Mark Twain's real name
What is Samuel Langhorne Clemens
100
This is the year that Mark Twain was born
What is 1835?
100
The job that Twain took in 1862.
What is work as a reporter?
100
These are the two things that Twain did not like.
What is technology and machines?
100
Where he and his wife finally settled.
What is Hartford, Connecticut?
200
These are the three kind of works that Twain wrote.
What are stories, novels, and essays?
200
This is where Twain grew up.
What is the town of Hannibal, Missouri?
200
The year that "The Notorious Frog ..." was published
What is 1865?
200
What Twain called most politicians.
What are swindlers and con men?
200
The people close to Twain who died at the end of the 1800's.
Who were his wife and daughters?
300
The man who said that all of American literature begins with Twain's novel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
300
The reason why Twain was forced to leave school in 1847.
What is his father's death?
300
This is another word for lying or stretching the truth.
What is exaggeration?
300
Two famous novels that Twain wrote
What are Tom Sawyer (1876) and Huckleberry Finn (1884)?
300
One of Mark Twain's other writing names.
What is Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass, W. Epaminandos Adrastus Blab, or Josh?
400
This is writing inteded to evoke laughter
What is humor?
400
The three places Twain visited when he travelled the country.
What is St. Louis, New York, and Iowa?
400
What the meaning of ornery is.
What is having a mean disposition (personality)?
400
Two qualities that Twain's heroes had.
What were they were dirt poor and plain spoken?
400
The name of the county that "The Notorious Jumping Frog ..." takes place
What is Calaveras County?
500
This is the person who tells a story.
What is a narrator?
500
What Twain decided to do when he returned home.
What is become a steamboat pilot?
500
This is language specific to a particular area of the country.
What is reginonal dialect?
500
The reason why Twain had to leave Virginia City.
What is he was challenged to a pistol duel?
500
The name of one of the characters in "The Notorious Jumping Frog..."
What is Leonidas W. Smiley, Simon Wheeler, the stranger, or the narrator?