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James Quiz 1

1 Who wrote James?
Just James

Mark Twain

Percival Everett

Bryan Washington
2 Who narrates James?
Huck

Mark

Percival

Jim
3 What form does James take?
Epic poem

Novel

Play

Short story
4 In what century is James set?
2000s

1700s

1800s

1900s
5 In what country is the book set?
United States

Mexico

Mississppi

Canada
6 Around which body of water does much of book's events take place?
Pacific Ocean

Mississippi River

Lake Michigan

Ohio River
7 In what state does Huck live?
Illinois

Mississippi

Missouri

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

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Erasure

It is not based on any other work
9 In what tense is James narrated?
Future tense

Present tense

The tense changes almost every sentence

Past tense
10 How many parts is the book divided into?
1

2

3

30
11 Who is the protagonist of James?
Everett

Jim

Huck

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

Firewood

Whisky

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

One of Judge Thatcher's books

Her pots and pans

Her pies
14 Who is Sadie to Jim?
His best friend

His wife

His sister

His cousin
15 Who is Lizzie to Jim?
His sister

His wife

His niece

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

Never speak to her at all

Undermine her authority

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 eloquence and intelligence

They pretend like they can't hear each other

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 only say positive things about their masters

They speak with improper diction and grammar to sound uneducated

They speak with eloquence and intelligence

They prefer not to speak with each other
20 Who does Miss Watson ask to keep an eye on Huck's wellbeing?
Judge Thatcher

Jim

Doris

Sadie
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 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

Black

White

Native American
24 Which answer best defines pilfer?
Roast

Consume

Sublimate

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

Miss Watson

Lizzie

Huck

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