Mark Twain

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When did Clemens' father die?

1847

When did Twain go to San Francisco?

1864

When did Twain go to Hawaii?

1866

When did Twain travel to the Mediterranean and the Holy Land?

1867

When did Twain move to Hartford, Conneticut?

1871

When was Roughing It published?

1872

When was The Gilded Age published?

1873

When was Tom Sawyer published?

1875

When was The Prince and the Pauper published?

1882

Increasingly involved financial problems prompted Twain to move to Europe in what year?

1891

When did Twain's daughter Susy die?

1896

When did Twain's wife die?

1904

What is Mark Twain called?

America's greatest writer

Who helped Twain write The Gilded Age?

Charles Warner

What was Charles Warner's middle name?

Dudley

Where was Olivia Langdon from?

Elmira, NY

What is Samuel Clemens' middle name?

Langhorne

Early in 1863, Clemens adopted what name?

Mark Twain

From 1853-1857, Twain visited and periodically worked as a printer in what places?

New York City, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Cincinatti

Who did Twain marry in 1870?

Olivia Langdon

What works did Twain produce in Hartford and Elmira in the summers?

Roughing It, Tom Sawyer, and The Gilded Age

What was Mark Twain's real name?

Samuel Clemens

What story earned Twain international fame?

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calveras County

What was Twain's first historic novel?

The Prince and the Pauper

What did Samuel Clemens' work have?

a major influence on 20th-century American fiction

Before Clemens became a writer what was he apprenticed to be?

a printer

In 1894, following the failure of his publishing company and of the Paige typesetting machine in which he had invested heavily, Twain was forced to do what?

declare bankruptcy

After unsuccessful attempts at what, did Clemens return to writing?

gold and silver mining

Why did Twain abandon journalism and his job as editor and part owner of the Buffalo Express?

he wanted to devote his full attention to serious literature

What is Twain's A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?

his most powerful fictional indictment of political and social injustice

When Twain moved to Hartford what did he abandon?

journalism and his job as editor and part owner of the Buffalo Express

Twain's writings of the late 1890s and 1900s became more what than ever?

pessimistic

When did Clemens' writing career begin?

shortly after the death of his father

In 1861, Twain traveled by what to Carson City, Nevada?

stagecoach

After a visit to New Orleans in 1857, Clemens learned the difficult art of what?

steamboat piloting

Clemens did steamboat piloting until what?

the Civil War closed the river

What is the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn called?

the greatest American novel ever written

The Simpsons, The Onion, The Colbert Report, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn all have what in common?

they use humor and satire

Why did Twain go on a world lecture tour in 1895?

to recoup his losses


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