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James Quiz 1

1 Who wrote James?
Mark Twain

Percival Everett

Just James

Bryan Washington
2 Who narrates James?
Jim

Percival

Mark

Huck
3 What form does James take?
Short story

Epic poem

Play

Novel
4 In what century is James set?
2000s

1800s

1700s

1900s
5 In what country is the book set?
Mississppi

Mexico

United States

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

Ohio River

Pacific Ocean

Mississippi River
7 In what state does Huck live?
Michigan

Mississippi

Illinois

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

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

It is not based on any other work

Erasure
9 In what tense is James narrated?
Past tense

Future tense

The tense changes almost every sentence

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

30

3

1
11 Who is the protagonist of James?
Everett

Twain

Jim

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

Cornbread

Coffee

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

Her VHS collection

Her pies

One of Judge Thatcher's books
14 Who is Sadie to Jim?
His best friend

His sister

His cousin

His wife
15 Who is Lizzie to Jim?
His wife

His daughter

His sister

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

Undermine her authority

Always speak with perfect pronunciation

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

Doris was his father's name too

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

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 with eloquence and intelligence

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
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 speak with eloquence and intelligence

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

Sadie

Judge Thatcher

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

She knows Pap is not Huck's real father

She owes Pap money

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 thinks it is funny to hear them mispronounce things

He is training them eventually to revolt against their masters

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

Chinese

Native American

White
24 Which answer best defines pilfer?
Roast

Steal

Sublimate

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

Huck

Miss Watson

Sadie

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