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James Quiz 1

1 Who wrote James?
Just James

Percival Everett

Bryan Washington

Mark Twain
2 Who narrates James?
Mark

Huck

Jim

Percival
3 What form does James take?
Epic poem

Novel

Short story

Play
4 In what century is James set?
1900s

1800s

1700s

2000s
5 In what country is the book set?
Mississppi

United States

Canada

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

Mississippi River

Ohio River

Pacific Ocean
7 In what state does Huck live?
Mississippi

Illinois

Missouri

Michigan
8 On which novel was James based?
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Erasure

It is not based on any other work

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

Future tense

Present tense

The tense changes almost every sentence
10 How many parts is the book divided into?
30

2

3

1
11 Who is the protagonist of James?
Twain

Everett

Jim

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

Whisky

Firewood

Coffee
13 What does Miss Watson question Jim about having touched?
One of Judge Thatcher's books

Her pots and pans

Her VHS collection

Her pies
14 Who is Sadie to Jim?
His sister

His cousin

His wife

His best friend
15 Who is Lizzie to Jim?
His sister

His niece

His daughter

His wife
16 What does Jim encourage Lizzie to do around Miss Watson?
Speak in an uneducated, ungrammatical dialect

Never speak to her at all

Undermine her authority

Always speak with perfect pronunciation
17 Why does Doris have a woman's name?
He is secretly a woman

Doris was his father's name too

He is a slave and it was his master's idea of a joke

Doris used to be a masculine name
18 In the book, how do enslaved people converse with each other when white people are listening?
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

They speak as eloquently and properly as they can, but it is difficult because they are uneducated
19 In the book, how do enslaved people converse with each other when only black people are listening?
They prefer not to speak with each other

They speak with eloquence and intelligence

They speak with improper diction and grammar to sound uneducated

They only say positive things about their masters
20 Who does Miss Watson ask to keep an eye on Huck's wellbeing?
Sadie

Judge Thatcher

Doris

Jim
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 stole Huck from Pap

She knows Pap is not Huck's real father
22 Why does Jim teach enslaved children to speak with less apparent intelligence when around white people?
He knows it is safer for slaves if white people think themselves superior

He is training them eventually to revolt against their masters

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?
Chinese

Native American

White

Black
24 Which answer best defines pilfer?
Consume

Roast

Sublimate

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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