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James Quiz 1

1 Who wrote James?

Percival Everett

Bryan Washington

Just James

Mark Twain
2 Who narrates James?

Jim

Huck

Percival

Mark
3 What form does James take?

Short story

Play

Epic poem

Novel
4 In what century is James set?

1800s

1900s

1700s

2000s
5 In what country is the book set?

Mexico

United States

Canada

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

Lake Michigan

Mississippi River

Pacific Ocean

Ohio River
7 In what state does Huck live?

Michigan

Missouri

Illinois

Mississippi
8 On which novel was James based?

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

It is not based on any other work

Erasure
9 In what tense is James narrated?

The tense changes almost every sentence

Present tense

Past tense

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

3

1

30

2
11 Who is the protagonist of James?

Huck

Jim

Everett

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

Cornbread

Whisky

Firewood

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

One of Judge Thatcher's books

Her pots and pans

Her pies

Her VHS collection
14 Who is Sadie to Jim?

His sister

His best friend

His wife

His cousin
15 Who is Lizzie to Jim?

His daughter

His niece

His wife

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

Always speak with perfect pronunciation

Undermine her authority

Never speak to her at all

Speak in an uneducated, ungrammatical dialect
17 Why does Doris have a woman's name?

Doris used to be a masculine name

Doris was his father's name too

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

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 speak with eloquence and intelligence

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
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 speak with eloquence and intelligence

They prefer not to speak with each other

They only say positive things about their masters
20 Who does Miss Watson ask to keep an eye on Huck's wellbeing?

Sadie

Jim

Judge Thatcher

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

She stole Huck from Pap

She knows Pap is not Huck's real father

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 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

White

Chinese
24 Which answer best defines pilfer?

Consume

Sublimate

Steal

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

Huck

Sadie

Miss Watson

Lizzie

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