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James Quiz 1

1 Who wrote James?

Bryan Washington

Percival Everett

Just James

Mark Twain
2 Who narrates James?

Percival

Mark

Huck

Jim
3 What form does James take?

Play

Novel

Epic poem

Short story
4 In what century is James set?

2000s

1900s

1800s

1700s
5 In what country is the book set?

Mexico

Canada

United States

Mississppi
6 Around which body of water does much of book's events take place?

Pacific Ocean

Mississippi River

Lake Michigan

Ohio River
7 In what state does Huck live?

Mississippi

Michigan

Illinois

Missouri
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?

The tense changes almost every sentence

Past tense

Present tense

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

3

2

1

30
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?

Cornbread

Coffee

Firewood

Whisky
13 What does Miss Watson question Jim about having touched?

Her VHS collection

Her pies

Her pots and pans

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

His best friend

His wife

His cousin

His sister
15 Who is Lizzie to Jim?

His daughter

His sister

His niece

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

Undermine her authority

Never speak to her at all

Speak in an uneducated, ungrammatical dialect

Always speak with perfect pronunciation
17 Why does Doris have a woman's name?

He is secretly a woman

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

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 pretend like they can't hear each other

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
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 only say positive things about their masters

They prefer not to speak with each other

They speak with eloquence and intelligence
20 Who does Miss Watson ask to keep an eye on Huck's wellbeing?

Judge Thatcher

Sadie

Jim

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

Pap is an abusive alcoholic who beats Huck

She stole Huck from Pap

She knows Pap is not Huck's real father

She owes Pap money
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?

Black

White

Chinese

Native American
24 Which answer best defines pilfer?

Steal

Roast

Consume

Sublimate
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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