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James Quiz 1

1 Who wrote James?

Percival Everett

Bryan Washington

Just James

Mark Twain
2 Who narrates James?

Jim

Percival

Mark

Huck
3 What form does James take?

Short story

Play

Novel

Epic poem
4 In what century is James set?

2000s

1700s

1900s

1800s
5 In what country is the book set?

Canada

Mississppi

United States

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

Ohio River

Pacific Ocean

Lake Michigan

Mississippi River
7 In what state does Huck live?

Illinois

Mississippi

Missouri

Michigan
8 On which novel was James based?

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Erasure

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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

Present tense

The tense changes almost every sentence

Past tense

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

3

2

1

30
11 Who is the protagonist of James?

Huck

Everett

Twain

Jim
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

One of Judge Thatcher's books

Her pies
14 Who is Sadie to Jim?

His wife

His sister

His best friend

His cousin
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?

Never speak to her at all

Speak in an uneducated, ungrammatical dialect

Always speak with perfect pronunciation

Undermine her authority
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 speak as eloquently and properly as they can, but it is difficult because they are uneducated

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
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 eloquence and intelligence

They only say positive things about their masters

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

Judge Thatcher

Sadie

Doris

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

Pap is an abusive alcoholic who beats Huck

She owes Pap money

She knows Pap is not Huck's real father

She stole Huck from Pap
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 knows it is safer for slaves if white people think themselves superior

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?

Native American

Black

Chinese

White
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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