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James Quiz 1

1 Who wrote James?
Mark Twain

Just James

Bryan Washington

Percival Everett
2 Who narrates James?
Huck

Percival

Mark

Jim
3 What form does James take?
Novel

Short story

Epic poem

Play
4 In what century is James set?
1900s

1800s

2000s

1700s
5 In what country is the book set?
Canada

United States

Mexico

Mississppi
6 Around which body of water does much of book's events take place?
Mississippi River

Ohio River

Lake Michigan

Pacific Ocean
7 In what state does Huck live?
Michigan

Mississippi

Illinois

Missouri
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?
Future tense

The tense changes almost every sentence

Past tense

Present tense
10 How many parts is the book divided into?
2

1

30

3
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?
Firewood

Coffee

Cornbread

Whisky
13 What does Miss Watson question Jim about having touched?
Her pots and pans

One of Judge Thatcher's books

Her pies

Her VHS collection
14 Who is Sadie to Jim?
His cousin

His wife

His best friend

His sister
15 Who is Lizzie to Jim?
His daughter

His niece

His sister

His wife
16 What does Jim encourage Lizzie to do around Miss Watson?
Always speak with perfect pronunciation

Speak in an uneducated, ungrammatical dialect

Never speak to her at all

Undermine her authority
17 Why does Doris have a woman's name?
He is a slave and it was his master's idea of a joke

Doris used to be a masculine name

Doris was his father's name too

He is secretly a woman
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 as eloquently and properly as they can, but it is difficult because they are uneducated

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 speak with eloquence and intelligence

They speak with improper diction and grammar to sound uneducated

They prefer not to speak with each other

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

Judge Thatcher

Jim

Sadie
21 Why does Miss Watson worry about Huck's Pap being back in town?
She knows Pap is not Huck's real father

She owes Pap money

Pap is an abusive alcoholic who beats Huck

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 thinks it is funny to hear them mispronounce things

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

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

Native American

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?
Huck

Miss Watson

Sadie

Lizzie

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