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James Quiz 1

1 Who wrote James?

Just James

Bryan Washington

Mark Twain

Percival Everett
2 Who narrates James?

Jim

Percival

Mark

Huck
3 What form does James take?

Play

Epic poem

Novel

Short story
4 In what century is James set?

1900s

1800s

2000s

1700s
5 In what country is the book set?

Canada

Mexico

Mississppi

United States
6 Around which body of water does much of book's events take place?

Mississippi River

Lake Michigan

Pacific Ocean

Ohio River
7 In what state does Huck live?

Michigan

Mississippi

Missouri

Illinois
8 On which novel was James based?

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Erasure

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

Future tense

The tense changes almost every sentence

Present tense

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

1

30

2

3
11 Who is the protagonist of James?

Twain

Everett

Huck

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

Coffee

Cornbread

Whisky

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

Her VHS collection

Her pots and pans

Her pies

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

His best friend

His wife

His cousin

His sister
15 Who is Lizzie to Jim?

His daughter

His niece

His wife

His sister
16 What does Jim encourage Lizzie to do around Miss Watson?

Always speak with perfect pronunciation

Never speak to her at all

Speak in an uneducated, ungrammatical dialect

Undermine her authority
17 Why does Doris have a woman's name?

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

He is secretly a woman

Doris used to be a masculine name

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 prefer not to speak with each other

They speak with improper diction and grammar to sound uneducated

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 knows Pap is not Huck's real father

She owes Pap money
22 Why does Jim teach enslaved children to speak with less apparent intelligence when around white people?

He thinks it is funny to hear them mispronounce things

He is training them eventually to revolt against their masters

He knows it is safer for slaves if white people think themselves superior

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

Native American

White

Chinese

Black
24 Which answer best defines pilfer?

Steal

Sublimate

Consume

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

Sadie

Lizzie

Huck

Miss Watson

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