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James Quiz 1

1 Who wrote James?
Just James

Percival Everett

Mark Twain

Bryan Washington
2 Who narrates James?
Mark

Percival

Jim

Huck
3 What form does James take?
Short story

Play

Epic poem

Novel
4 In what century is James set?
2000s

1700s

1900s

1800s
5 In what country is the book set?
Mexico

United States

Mississppi

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

Ohio River

Pacific Ocean

Mississippi River
7 In what state does Huck live?
Michigan

Mississippi

Illinois

Missouri
8 On which novel was James based?
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Erasure

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

Present tense

Future tense

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

2

1

30
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

Firewood

Cornbread

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

Her VHS collection

Her pies

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

His wife

His cousin

His sister
15 Who is Lizzie to Jim?
His niece

His daughter

His sister

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

Never speak to her at all

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

Doris used to be a masculine name

He is secretly a woman

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 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 eloquence and intelligence

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?
Sadie

Doris

Judge Thatcher

Jim
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 knows it is safer for slaves if white people think themselves superior

He is training them eventually to revolt against their masters

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

Chinese

Black
24 Which answer best defines pilfer?
Sublimate

Consume

Roast

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

Lizzie

Miss Watson

Sadie

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