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James Quiz 1

1 Who wrote James?
Percival Everett

Just James

Bryan Washington

Mark Twain
2 Who narrates James?
Percival

Mark

Jim

Huck
3 What form does James take?
Epic poem

Short story

Novel

Play
4 In what century is James set?
1700s

2000s

1800s

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

United States

Canada

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

Pacific Ocean

Mississippi River

Ohio River
7 In what state does Huck live?
Missouri

Illinois

Mississippi

Michigan
8 On which novel was James based?
Erasure

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

It is not based on any other work
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?
30

2

1

3
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?
Firewood

Whisky

Coffee

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 wife

His best friend

His sister

His cousin
15 Who is Lizzie to Jim?
His sister

His daughter

His wife

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

Speak in an uneducated, ungrammatical dialect

Always speak with perfect pronunciation

Never speak to her at all
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 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 speak with eloquence and intelligence

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 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
20 Who does Miss Watson ask to keep an eye on Huck's wellbeing?
Doris

Jim

Judge Thatcher

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

She owes Pap money

She knows Pap is not Huck's real father

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 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?
Chinese

White

Native American

Black
24 Which answer best defines pilfer?
Roast

Steal

Sublimate

Consume
25 Who tells Jim that he is probably going to be sold to a man in New Orleans?
Miss Watson

Sadie

Huck

Lizzie

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