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James Quiz 1

1 Who wrote James?
Bryan Washington

Percival Everett

Mark Twain

Just James
2 Who narrates James?
Jim

Mark

Huck

Percival
3 What form does James take?
Play

Novel

Epic poem

Short story
4 In what century is James set?
1900s

2000s

1800s

1700s
5 In what country is the book set?
United States

Canada

Mississppi

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?
Missouri

Illinois

Michigan

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

It is not based on any other work

Erasure

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
9 In what tense is James narrated?
Present tense

Future tense

Past tense

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

1

30

2
11 Who is the protagonist of James?
Jim

Huck

Everett

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

Whisky

Firewood

Cornbread
13 What does Miss Watson question Jim about having touched?
Her pots and pans

One of Judge Thatcher's books

Her pies

Her VHS collection
14 Who is Sadie to Jim?
His sister

His best friend

His cousin

His wife
15 Who is Lizzie to Jim?
His wife

His sister

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?
Doris used to be a masculine name

He is a slave and it was his master's idea of a joke

Doris was his father's name too

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 pretend like they can't hear each other

They speak with eloquence and intelligence

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 only say positive things about their masters

They speak with improper diction and grammar to sound uneducated

They speak with eloquence and intelligence

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

Jim

Sadie

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

She knows Pap is not Huck's real father

Pap is an abusive alcoholic who beats Huck

She stole Huck from Pap
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?
Black

Chinese

White

Native American
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?
Miss Watson

Lizzie

Sadie

Huck

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