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What is the name of the death-obsessed daughter of the feuding Grangerford family Huck Finn stays with for while?
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244 times (34.1%) |
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120 times (16.8%) |
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What title is the Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (from the book of the same name by Mark Twain) given after joining King Arthur's court? A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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223 times |
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116 times (29.5%) |
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When Mark Twain journeyed west to work in the Nevada Territory, as chronicled in Roughing It, which bustling metropolis was his initial destination?
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311 times |
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253 times (53.5%) |
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When we first meet Huckleberry Finn in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, what is Huck carrying?
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1682 times |
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738 times (32.8%) |
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944 times (41.9%) |
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570 times (25.3%) |
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Which of the following is the title character of a Mark Twain novel?
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2088 times |
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1613 times (62.7%) |
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medium |
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475 times (18.5%) |
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485 times (18.8%) |
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Samuel L. Clemens chose his pen name, Mark Twain, from a signal used on riverboats that the water was at a depth of
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4041 times |
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2174 times (37.8%) |
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1867 times (32.5%) |
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Where was Mark Twain born?
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261 times |
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195 times (54.0%) |
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medium |
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66 times (18.3%) |
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100 times (27.7%) |
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When did Mark Twain Die?
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382 times |
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203 times (38.7%) |
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179 times (34.2%) |
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142 times (27.1%) |
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What was Mark Twain's real name?
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434 times |
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338 times (76.6%) |
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easy |
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96 times (21.8%) |
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7 times (1.6%) |
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In his explanatory note at the beginning of The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain says people attempting to find a plot in his novel will be ____?
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3344 times |
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1565 times (36.7%) |
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1779 times (41.7%) |
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923 times (21.6%) |
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Samuel Clemens is best known as Mark Twain. Which of the following pen names did he also use?
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3610 times |
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2847 times (66.4%) |
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medium |
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763 times (17.8%) |
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678 times (15.8%) |
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Both the birth and death of Mark Twain coincided with which celestial phenomena?
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3194 times |
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2411 times (61.8%) |
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medium |
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783 times (20.1%) |
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708 times (18.1%) |
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Jim, in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, said that the first thing he was going to save up to buy when he was free was what?
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10979 times |
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5779 times (40.7%) |
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medium |
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5200 times (36.6%) |
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3221 times (22.7%) |
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In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, what started the feud between the Shepherdsons and Grangerfords?
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9892 times |
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7321 times (52.0%) |
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medium |
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2571 times (18.3%) |
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4178 times (29.7%) |
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According to Huck Finn (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer), what is a dead cat good for?
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765 times |
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466 times (49.3%) |
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299 times (31.6%) |
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181 times (19.1%) |
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Near the end of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer and Huck try to give the shack where the slave Jim is held captive a more "dungeon-like" feel. Which of the following obnoxious animals were Tom and Huck not able to procure for Jim's prison?
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1843 times |
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1044 times (40.0%) |
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799 times (30.6%) |
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767 times (29.4%) |
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Which of the following authors is not one of the top ten most challenged in libraries from 1990-2004?
   
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1179 times |
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281 times (19.7%) |
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very difficult |
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898 times (62.9%) |
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In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, whose soliloquy does the Duke mangle horribly?
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14997 times |
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9726 times (44.0%) |
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5271 times (23.8%) |
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In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, at a tent revival, the King claims to be a reforming _____ in order to gain money from the crowd.
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2564 times |
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401 times (12.2%) |
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2163 times (65.8%) |
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Who wrote "The Garden of Forking Paths"?
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367 times |
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241 times (32.9%) |
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After what author did Kurt Vonnegut name his son?
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249 times |
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103 times (21.5%) |
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"To be or not to be; that is the bare bodkin
That makes calamity of so long life"
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282 times |
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102 times (29.6%) |
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180 times (52.2%) |
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If cats could write poetry, in Henry Beard's Poetry for Cats: The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse, whose cat might have submitted an entry containing the following tale?
"On a night quite unenchanting, when the rain was downward slanting,
I awakened to the ranting of the man I catch mice for.
Tipsy and a bit unshaven, in a tone I found quite craven,
(He) was talking to a Raven perched above the chamber door.
(...)
Still the Raven never fluttered, standing stock-still as he uttered,
In a voice that schrieked and sputtered, his two cents' worth --
'Nevermore.'
While this dirge the birdbrain kept up, oh, so silently I crept up,
Then I crouched and quickly leapt up, pouncing on the feathered bore.
Soon he was a heap of plumage, and a little blood and gore --
Only this and not much more."
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237 times (78.0%) |
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"There are two things that can be wrong with any man. One of them is a cheque. The other is a woman."
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70 times (24.5%) |
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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."
Who said this, and where?
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913 times (63.5%) |
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"__________ was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. _________ signed it. And _________'s name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to.
Old _________ was as dead as a door-nail."
This is the beginning of ...
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In Mark Twain's classic, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom, Huck and what other boy run away to be pirates on an island in the Mississippi?
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4607 times |
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2345 times (39.7%) |
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2262 times (38.2%) |
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What is the title of Mark Twain's book about his European travels?
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4100 times |
| Correct: |
3350 times (65.7%) |
| Difficulty: |
medium |
| Incorrect: |
750 times (14.7%) |
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1002 times (19.6%) |
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What was Mark Twain's real name?
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| Answered: |
3334 times |
| Correct: |
3145 times (91.1%) |
| Difficulty: |
very easy |
| Incorrect: |
189 times (5.5%) |
| Skipped: |
117 times (3.4%) |
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True or False: Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) had six siblings, two of whom were named Pleasant and Orion.
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1902 times |
| Correct: |
1491 times (56.7%) |
| Difficulty: |
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| Incorrect: |
411 times (15.6%) |
| Skipped: |
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