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James Quiz 1

1 Who wrote James?

Bryan Washington

Mark Twain

Just James

Percival Everett
2 Who narrates James?

Jim

Mark

Huck

Percival
3 What form does James take?

Epic poem

Novel

Play

Short story
4 In what century is James set?

1800s

2000s

1700s

1900s
5 In what country is the book set?

United States

Mississppi

Canada

Mexico
6 Around which body of water does much of book's events take place?

Mississippi River

Pacific Ocean

Ohio River

Lake Michigan
7 In what state does Huck live?

Mississippi

Michigan

Missouri

Illinois
8 On which novel was James based?

It is not based on any other work

Erasure

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
9 In what tense is James narrated?

Past tense

Present tense

The tense changes almost every sentence

Future tense
10 How many parts is the book divided into?

3

2

1

30
11 Who is the protagonist of James?

Everett

Jim

Twain

Huck
12 What is Jim waiting for Miss Watson to bring him at the start of the story?

Whisky

Coffee

Firewood

Cornbread
13 What does Miss Watson question Jim about having touched?

Her pies

Her pots and pans

One of Judge Thatcher's books

Her VHS collection
14 Who is Sadie to Jim?

His sister

His cousin

His wife

His best friend
15 Who is Lizzie to Jim?

His daughter

His wife

His niece

His sister
16 What does Jim encourage Lizzie to do around Miss Watson?

Undermine her authority

Speak in an uneducated, ungrammatical dialect

Always speak with perfect pronunciation

Never speak to her at all
17 Why does Doris have a woman's name?

He is secretly a woman

Doris was his father's name too

Doris used to be a masculine name

He is a slave and it was his master's idea of a joke
18 In the book, how do enslaved people converse with each other when white people are listening?

They speak as eloquently and properly as they can, but it is difficult because they are uneducated

They pretend like they can't hear each other

They speak with eloquence and intelligence

They speak with improper diction and grammar to sound uneducated
19 In the book, how do enslaved people converse with each other when only black people are listening?

They only say positive things about their masters

They prefer not to speak with each other

They speak with improper diction and grammar to sound uneducated

They speak with eloquence and intelligence
20 Who does Miss Watson ask to keep an eye on Huck's wellbeing?

Jim

Judge Thatcher

Sadie

Doris
21 Why does Miss Watson worry about Huck's Pap being back in town?

She owes Pap money

Pap is an abusive alcoholic who beats Huck

She knows Pap is not Huck's real father

She stole Huck from Pap
22 Why does Jim teach enslaved children to speak with less apparent intelligence when around white people?

He is training them eventually to revolt against their masters

He knows it is safer for slaves if white people think themselves superior

He thinks it is funny to hear them mispronounce things

None of these
23 Based on what Jim tells Huck, what was Jim's father's ethnicity most likely?

Native American

White

Chinese

Black
24 Which answer best defines pilfer?

Sublimate

Consume

Roast

Steal
25 Who tells Jim that he is probably going to be sold to a man in New Orleans?

Sadie

Huck

Lizzie

Miss Watson

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