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James Quiz 1

1 Who wrote James?

Mark Twain

Bryan Washington

Just James

Percival Everett
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?

1900s

1800s

2000s

1700s
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?

Mississippi River

Lake Michigan

Ohio River

Pacific Ocean
7 In what state does Huck live?

Missouri

Mississippi

Illinois

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?

Past tense

The tense changes almost every sentence

Present tense

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

1

3

30

2
11 Who is the protagonist of James?

Twain

Huck

Everett

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

Whisky

Cornbread

Coffee

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

Her pots and pans

One of Judge Thatcher's books

Her VHS collection

Her pies
14 Who is Sadie to Jim?

His cousin

His best friend

His wife

His sister
15 Who is Lizzie to Jim?

His niece

His daughter

His wife

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

Never speak to her at all

Speak in an uneducated, ungrammatical dialect

Always speak with perfect pronunciation

Undermine her authority
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 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

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 speak with eloquence and intelligence

They speak with improper diction and grammar to sound uneducated

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

Judge Thatcher

Doris

Sadie

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

She stole Huck from Pap

She owes Pap money

Pap is an abusive alcoholic who beats Huck

She knows Pap is not Huck's real father
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

Native American

Chinese
24 Which answer best defines pilfer?

Steal

Consume

Roast

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

Miss Watson

Lizzie

Huck

Sadie

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