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James Quiz 1

1 Who wrote James?
Percival Everett

Mark Twain

Bryan Washington

Just James
2 Who narrates James?
Huck

Mark

Percival

Jim
3 What form does James take?
Epic poem

Play

Short story

Novel
4 In what century is James set?
2000s

1700s

1800s

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

Canada

Mexico

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

Lake Michigan

Mississippi River

Pacific Ocean
7 In what state does Huck live?
Illinois

Michigan

Missouri

Mississippi
8 On which novel was James based?
Erasure

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

It is not based on any other work
9 In what tense is James narrated?
The tense changes almost every sentence

Past tense

Present tense

Future tense
10 How many parts is the book divided into?
1

30

3

2
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 VHS collection

Her pots and pans

Her pies
14 Who is Sadie to Jim?
His wife

His sister

His cousin

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

His wife

His daughter

His niece
16 What does Jim encourage Lizzie to do around Miss Watson?
Never speak to her at all

Undermine her authority

Always speak with perfect pronunciation

Speak in an uneducated, ungrammatical dialect
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 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

They pretend like they can't hear each other
19 In the book, how do enslaved people converse with each other when only black people are listening?
They speak with eloquence and intelligence

They speak with improper diction and grammar to sound uneducated

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?
Judge Thatcher

Doris

Sadie

Jim
21 Why does Miss Watson worry about Huck's Pap being back in town?
Pap is an abusive alcoholic who beats Huck

She knows Pap is not Huck's real father

She owes Pap money

She stole Huck from Pap
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

Black

Native American

Chinese
24 Which answer best defines pilfer?
Consume

Steal

Roast

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

Huck

Miss Watson

Sadie

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