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James Quiz 1

1 Who wrote James?
Mark Twain

Just James

Percival Everett

Bryan Washington
2 Who narrates James?
Jim

Huck

Mark

Percival
3 What form does James take?
Play

Short story

Epic poem

Novel
4 In what century is James set?
2000s

1900s

1700s

1800s
5 In what country is the book set?
Canada

Mississppi

Mexico

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

Lake Michigan

Ohio River

Pacific Ocean
7 In what state does Huck live?
Mississippi

Michigan

Illinois

Missouri
8 On which novel was James based?
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

It is not based on any other work

Erasure

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
9 In what tense is James narrated?
Present tense

Past tense

Future tense

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

1

3

2
11 Who is the protagonist of James?
Huck

Twain

Jim

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

Firewood

Coffee

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

Her VHS collection

One of Judge Thatcher's books

Her pots and pans
14 Who is Sadie to Jim?
His wife

His cousin

His sister

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

His daughter

His niece

His wife
16 What does Jim encourage Lizzie to do around Miss Watson?
Undermine her authority

Never speak to her at all

Always speak with perfect pronunciation

Speak in an uneducated, ungrammatical dialect
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

He is secretly a woman

Doris was his father's name too
18 In the book, how do enslaved people converse with each other when white people are listening?
They speak with improper diction and grammar to sound uneducated

They speak with eloquence and intelligence

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
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

Jim

Judge Thatcher

Sadie
21 Why does Miss Watson worry about Huck's Pap being back in town?
She stole Huck from Pap

Pap is an abusive alcoholic who beats Huck

She owes Pap money

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 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

Chinese

Black

White
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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