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James Quiz 1

1 Who wrote James?

Bryan Washington

Percival Everett

Just James

Mark Twain
2 Who narrates James?

Percival

Huck

Jim

Mark
3 What form does James take?

Short story

Novel

Epic poem

Play
4 In what century is James set?

2000s

1700s

1900s

1800s
5 In what country is the book set?

Mississppi

Mexico

Canada

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?

Illinois

Mississippi

Missouri

Michigan
8 On which novel was James based?

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

It is not based on any other work

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Erasure
9 In what tense is James narrated?

The tense changes almost every sentence

Past tense

Present tense

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

30

3

2

1
11 Who is the protagonist of James?

Twain

Jim

Huck

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

Whisky

Coffee

Firewood

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 cousin

His best friend

His sister

His wife
15 Who is Lizzie to Jim?

His sister

His niece

His daughter

His wife
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 used to be a masculine name

He is secretly a woman

Doris was his father's name too

He is a slave and it was his master's idea of a joke
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 improper diction and grammar to sound uneducated

They speak as eloquently and properly as they can, but it is difficult because they are 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 only say positive things about their masters

They speak with eloquence and intelligence

They speak with improper diction and grammar to sound uneducated
20 Who does Miss Watson ask to keep an eye on Huck's wellbeing?

Jim

Doris

Judge Thatcher

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

She stole Huck from Pap

She owes Pap money

Pap is an abusive alcoholic who beats Huck

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 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?

White

Chinese

Native American

Black
24 Which answer best defines pilfer?

Consume

Roast

Steal

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

Miss Watson

Huck

Lizzie

Sadie

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