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James Quiz 1

1 Who wrote James?
Bryan Washington

Percival Everett

Just James

Mark Twain
2 Who narrates James?
Mark

Percival

Jim

Huck
3 What form does James take?
Novel

Short story

Play

Epic poem
4 In what century is James set?
1700s

1800s

1900s

2000s
5 In what country is the book set?
Mexico

United States

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?
Illinois

Michigan

Missouri

Mississippi
8 On which novel was James based?
It is not based on any other work

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Erasure

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
9 In what tense is James narrated?
The tense changes almost every sentence

Past tense

Future tense

Present tense
10 How many parts is the book divided into?
30

2

1

3
11 Who is the protagonist of James?
Jim

Everett

Twain

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

Whisky

Cornbread

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

Her VHS collection

Her pots and pans

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

His cousin

His sister

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

His niece

His wife

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

Always speak with perfect pronunciation

Never speak to her at all

Speak in an uneducated, ungrammatical dialect
17 Why does Doris have a woman's name?
Doris was his father's name too

Doris used to be a masculine name

He is secretly a woman

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 speak with improper diction and grammar to sound uneducated

They speak with eloquence and intelligence

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
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

She stole Huck from Pap

She knows Pap is not Huck's real father

Pap is an abusive alcoholic who beats Huck
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

Chinese

White

Native American
24 Which answer best defines pilfer?
Sublimate

Roast

Steal

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

Miss Watson

Sadie

Huck

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