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James Quiz 1

1 Who wrote James?

Percival Everett

Bryan Washington

Mark Twain

Just James
2 Who narrates James?

Mark

Jim

Huck

Percival
3 What form does James take?

Short story

Play

Epic poem

Novel
4 In what century is James set?

1900s

1700s

1800s

2000s
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?

Lake Michigan

Pacific Ocean

Ohio River

Mississippi River
7 In what state does Huck live?

Michigan

Mississippi

Missouri

Illinois
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

1

3
11 Who is the protagonist of James?

Twain

Huck

Jim

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

Cornbread

Firewood

Whisky

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

Her pots and pans

Her VHS collection

One of Judge Thatcher's books

Her pies
14 Who is Sadie to Jim?

His sister

His best friend

His wife

His cousin
15 Who is Lizzie to Jim?

His wife

His daughter

His niece

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

Undermine her authority

Speak in an uneducated, ungrammatical dialect

Always speak with perfect pronunciation

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

Doris was his father's name too

He is secretly a woman

Doris used to be a masculine name

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 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 only say positive things about their masters

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?

Judge Thatcher

Doris

Jim

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

She knows Pap is not Huck's real father

She stole Huck from Pap

She owes Pap money

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 thinks it is funny to hear them mispronounce things

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?

White

Native American

Chinese

Black
24 Which answer best defines pilfer?

Consume

Sublimate

Steal

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

Miss Watson

Huck

Sadie

Lizzie

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