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James Quiz 1

1 Who wrote James?
Percival Everett

Just James

Bryan Washington

Mark Twain
2 Who narrates James?
Jim

Percival

Mark

Huck
3 What form does James take?
Short story

Novel

Epic poem

Play
4 In what century is James set?
1800s

1900s

1700s

2000s
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

Lake Michigan

Mississippi River

Pacific Ocean
7 In what state does Huck live?
Missouri

Illinois

Michigan

Mississippi
8 On which novel was James based?
It is not based on any other work

Erasure

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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

The tense changes almost every sentence

Past tense

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

2

3

1
11 Who is the protagonist of James?
Huck

Twain

Everett

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

Coffee

Firewood

Cornbread
13 What does Miss Watson question Jim about having touched?
Her VHS collection

Her pies

One of Judge Thatcher's books

Her pots and pans
14 Who is Sadie to Jim?
His best friend

His cousin

His wife

His sister
15 Who is Lizzie to Jim?
His sister

His wife

His niece

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

Always speak with perfect pronunciation

Undermine her authority

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

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
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 improper diction and grammar to sound uneducated

They pretend like they can't hear each other

They speak with eloquence and intelligence
19 In the book, how do enslaved people converse with each other when only black people are listening?
They prefer not to speak with each other

They only say positive things about their masters

They speak with eloquence and intelligence

They speak with improper diction and grammar to sound uneducated
20 Who does Miss Watson ask to keep an eye on Huck's wellbeing?
Sadie

Judge Thatcher

Doris

Jim
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 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?
Native American

Chinese

White

Black
24 Which answer best defines pilfer?
Steal

Sublimate

Roast

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

Miss Watson

Sadie

Lizzie

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