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James Quiz 1

1 Who wrote James?
Just James

Mark Twain

Percival Everett

Bryan Washington
2 Who narrates James?
Percival

Huck

Mark

Jim
3 What form does James take?
Novel

Short story

Play

Epic poem
4 In what century is James set?
1700s

2000s

1900s

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

Mexico

Mississppi

United States
6 Around which body of water does much of book's events take place?
Pacific Ocean

Mississippi River

Ohio River

Lake Michigan
7 In what state does Huck live?
Illinois

Missouri

Michigan

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

Erasure

It is not based on any other work

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

The tense changes almost every sentence

Future tense

Past tense
10 How many parts is the book divided into?
30

1

3

2
11 Who is the protagonist of James?
Jim

Everett

Twain

Huck
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 sister

His cousin

His best friend
15 Who is Lizzie to Jim?
His wife

His sister

His niece

His daughter
16 What does Jim encourage Lizzie to do around Miss Watson?
Never speak to her at all

Speak in an uneducated, ungrammatical dialect

Undermine her authority

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

He is secretly a woman

Doris was his father's name too

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 pretend like they can't hear each other

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 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?
Judge Thatcher

Jim

Doris

Sadie
21 Why does Miss Watson worry about Huck's Pap being back in town?
She knows Pap is not Huck's real father

Pap is an abusive alcoholic who beats Huck

She owes Pap money

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 thinks it is funny to hear them mispronounce things

He is training them eventually to revolt against their masters

None of these
23 Based on what Jim tells Huck, what was Jim's father's ethnicity most likely?
Native American

Black

Chinese

White
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?
Miss Watson

Sadie

Huck

Lizzie

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