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Mark Twain Test1. On the night Samuel Clemens wasborn, _____ was visible in the sky.A. the space stationB Halley’s cometC. NeptuneD. Pluto2. Sam grew up near the _____.A. Pacific OceanB. Colorado RiverC. Gulf of MexicoD. Mississippi River3. Samuel Clemens based his characterof Huckleberry Finn on his _____.A. boyhood friend Tom BlankenshipB. brother OrionC. Uncle John QuarlesD. friend Dan’l4. Sam at age 11 worked as anapprentice at a _____.A. blacksmith shopB. retail merchant’s storeC. newspaperD. logging company5. Sam quit working for his brotherbecause _____.A. he wasn’t getting paidB. he and Orion had a fightC. his mother told him to quitD. he got married6. As a boy when he stowed away on ariverboat they _____.A. taught him how to pilot the boatB. put him off at the next stopC. charged him with a crime and put himin jailD. called his mother to come and gethim7. When he gave his first after-dinnerspeech _____.A. he was so scared he couldn’t speakB. they paid him a lot of moneyC. the people loved to hear him speakD. he decided never to give anotherspeech8. A _____ was the origin of the term“Mark Twain”.A. nickname given by his motherB. magazine articleC. Broadway showD. nautical term9. A “fathom” is _____.A. 6 feetB. 12 feetC. 30 feetD. 6 inches10. Riverboat traffic was halted on theMississippi River during the Civil Warbecause _____.A. the water was too shallowB. there weren’t enough boatsC. they wanted to stop supplies fromgetting to the SouthD. they wanted to stop gambling

11. When he worked as a riverboat pilot,Twain earned _____a year.A. $500B. $3,000C. $200D. $61,00012. Missouri was unique during the CivilWar because it _____.A. had no slaves in the stateB. it seceded from the UnionC. was a slave-holding state in the UnionD. refused to take sides in the conflict13. The Marion Rangers of which Twainwas a part _____.A. disbanded in less than a monthB. fought bravely during the warC. fought with the Union troopsD. freed the slaves in the state14. In Nevada Mark Twain lost all hismoney by _____.A. writing articles no one wanted to readB. investing in worthless minesC. unwise investments in the stockmarketD. living a lavish lifestyle15. When prospecting for gold he _____.A. found a lot of gold by panning for itB. met his future brideC. nearly froze in the winterD. heard interesting stories16. He wrote stories from Hawaii, whichwere then known as the_____.A. Isles of the PacificB. BahamasC. Sandwich IslandsD. Caribbean Islands17. He wrote a book about his boyhoodcalled _____.A. Tom SawyerB. The Innocents AbroadC. The Jumping FrogD. Recollections of Joan of Arc18. Mark Twain was able to get out ofdebt by _____.A. selling his big houseB. signing books at storesC. giving lecturesD. performing piano concerts19. Twain was very proud when hereceived an honorary degree from_____.A. HarvardB. PurdueC. William and MaryD. Oxford20. The science fiction novel he wrotewas called _____.A. The Prince and the PauperB. A Connecticut Yankee in KingArthur’s CourtC. Chapters from My AutobiographyD. Life on the MississippiCopyright © 2009 Patsy Stevens, gardenofpraise.comNonprofit duplication permitted