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James Quiz 1

1 Who wrote James?
Percival Everett

Bryan Washington

Just James

Mark Twain
2 Who narrates James?
Jim

Huck

Percival

Mark
3 What form does James take?
Play

Epic poem

Short story

Novel
4 In what century is James set?
1900s

1800s

2000s

1700s
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?
Mississippi River

Lake Michigan

Pacific Ocean

Ohio River
7 In what state does Huck live?
Mississippi

Michigan

Missouri

Illinois
8 On which novel was James based?
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

It is not based on any other work

Erasure

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
9 In what tense is James narrated?
Future tense

The tense changes almost every sentence

Past tense

Present tense
10 How many parts is the book divided into?
2

30

3

1
11 Who is the protagonist of James?
Jim

Everett

Huck

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

Firewood

Cornbread

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

Her VHS collection

Her pots and pans

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

His sister

His best friend

His wife
15 Who is Lizzie to Jim?
His niece

His wife

His daughter

His sister
16 What does Jim encourage Lizzie to do around Miss Watson?
Speak in an uneducated, ungrammatical dialect

Always speak with perfect pronunciation

Never speak to her at all

Undermine her authority
17 Why does Doris have a woman's name?
Doris used to be a masculine name

Doris was his father's name too

He is secretly a woman

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 speak with improper diction and grammar to sound 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 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?
Doris

Judge Thatcher

Jim

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

She stole Huck from Pap

She knows Pap is not Huck's real father

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 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?
Black

Chinese

White

Native American
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?
Lizzie

Sadie

Huck

Miss Watson

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