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James Quiz 1

1 Who wrote James?
Just James

Bryan Washington

Mark Twain

Percival Everett
2 Who narrates James?
Percival

Huck

Mark

Jim
3 What form does James take?
Play

Epic poem

Novel

Short story
4 In what century is James set?
1700s

1800s

2000s

1900s
5 In what country is the book set?
Mississppi

Mexico

United States

Canada
6 Around which body of water does much of book's events take place?
Ohio River

Lake Michigan

Pacific Ocean

Mississippi River
7 In what state does Huck live?
Michigan

Illinois

Missouri

Mississippi
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?
Past tense

Future tense

Present tense

The tense changes almost every sentence
10 How many parts is the book divided into?
3

30

2

1
11 Who is the protagonist of James?
Everett

Twain

Huck

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

Cornbread

Firewood

Coffee
13 What does Miss Watson question Jim about having touched?
One of Judge Thatcher's books

Her pies

Her VHS collection

Her pots and pans
14 Who is Sadie to Jim?
His sister

His best friend

His wife

His cousin
15 Who is Lizzie to Jim?
His niece

His daughter

His wife

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

Always speak with perfect pronunciation

Speak in an uneducated, ungrammatical dialect

Never speak to her at all
17 Why does Doris have a woman's name?
He is a slave and it was his master's idea of a joke

Doris was his father's name too

Doris used to be a masculine name

He is secretly a woman
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 speak with improper diction and grammar to sound uneducated

They speak with eloquence and intelligence

They only say positive things about their masters

They prefer not to speak with each other
20 Who does Miss Watson ask to keep an eye on Huck's wellbeing?
Doris

Judge Thatcher

Sadie

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

Pap is an abusive alcoholic who beats Huck

She stole Huck from Pap

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 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?
White

Native American

Black

Chinese
24 Which answer best defines pilfer?
Roast

Consume

Steal

Sublimate
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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