10th Grade Advanced English Mark Twain Notes Quiz (Chaney)
The novel is satiristic:
1) Civilization - Material Possesstions 2) Formalized Religion - Man's Gullibility 3) Romantic Novels - Serial Customs of Burial
About his life on the Mississippi River
1) Life on the Mississippi 2) A Connecticut Yankee in King Authur's Court 3) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 4) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A travel memoir about the West
1) Roughing It 2) Prince and the Pauper
After the __________ ___________, he went _______.
Civil War; West
"All Modern American Literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn." was written by __________ ____________.
Ernest Hemingway
How many daughters did Twain have?
Four
Where did his family move when Sam was 4?
Hannibal, Missouri
In 1857, he worked for _________ __________ as a river boat pilot.
Horace Bixby
What was Twain's masterpiece?
Huck Finn
___________ __________ was called America's "first indigenous literary masterpiece".
Huck Finn
He first used his pen name while writing for a newspaper where?
In Nevada
A humorous travel log of his experiences in Europe
Innocents Abroad
A bitter unfinished collection of writing
Letters from the Earth
In 1883, he published _______ __ _____ _________________ about his days on the river.
Life on the Mississippi
Even his pen name, ____________ ____________, came from his river boating days.
Mark Twain
When and where was Mark Twain born?
November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri
He married _________ _________ in 1870.
Olivia Langdon
In his teens, Mark worked as a ______________ and a ______________.
Printer; Journalist
What was Mark Twain's real name?
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
In 1865, what short story did he publish that made him famous?
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
What was a great influence on his writing?
The Mississippi River
What led to Twain's depression and anxiety?
The early deaths of his four daughters
