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James Quiz 1

1 Who wrote James?
Percival Everett

Just James

Mark Twain

Bryan Washington
2 Who narrates James?
Huck

Jim

Percival

Mark
3 What form does James take?
Novel

Short story

Play

Epic poem
4 In what century is James set?
2000s

1700s

1800s

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

Mexico

Canada

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

Pacific Ocean

Lake Michigan

Ohio River
7 In what state does Huck live?
Mississippi

Michigan

Missouri

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

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

It is not based on any other work

Erasure
9 In what tense is James narrated?
Past tense

The tense changes almost every sentence

Present tense

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

30

2

3
11 Who is the protagonist of James?
Jim

Twain

Everett

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

Cornbread

Firewood

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

One of Judge Thatcher's books

Her VHS collection

Her pots and pans
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

Speak in an uneducated, ungrammatical dialect

Undermine her authority

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

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 improper diction and grammar to sound uneducated

They speak with eloquence and intelligence
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 improper diction and grammar to sound uneducated

They only say positive things about their masters

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

Sadie

Doris

Judge Thatcher
21 Why does Miss Watson worry about Huck's Pap being back in town?
Pap is an abusive alcoholic who beats Huck

She stole Huck from Pap

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?
Black

White

Chinese

Native American
24 Which answer best defines pilfer?
Sublimate

Roast

Consume

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

Sadie

Huck

Miss Watson

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