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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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242 times (33.9%) |
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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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218 times |
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116 times (29.9%) |
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102 times (26.3%) |
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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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308 times |
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250 times (53.4%) |
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58 times (12.4%) |
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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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1617 times |
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708 times (32.6%) |
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909 times (41.8%) |
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556 times (25.6%) |
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Which of the following is the title character of a Mark Twain novel?
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2029 times |
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1566 times (62.5%) |
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medium |
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463 times (18.5%) |
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475 times (19.0%) |
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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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3924 times |
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2114 times (37.8%) |
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1810 times (32.4%) |
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1671 times (29.9%) |
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Where was Mark Twain born?
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260 times |
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194 times (53.9%) |
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medium |
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66 times (18.3%) |
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100 times (27.8%) |
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When did Mark Twain Die?
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365 times |
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193 times (38.1%) |
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difficult |
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172 times (33.9%) |
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142 times (28.0%) |
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What was Mark Twain's real name?
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365 times |
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290 times (78.2%) |
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easy |
| Incorrect: |
75 times (20.2%) |
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6 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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3265 times |
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1526 times (36.7%) |
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1739 times (41.8%) |
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895 times (21.5%) |
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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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3504 times |
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2765 times (66.4%) |
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medium |
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739 times (17.8%) |
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658 times (15.8%) |
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Both the birth and death of Mark Twain coincided with which celestial phenomena?
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3090 times |
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2340 times (61.8%) |
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medium |
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750 times (19.8%) |
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696 times (18.4%) |
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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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10710 times |
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5639 times (40.7%) |
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5071 times (36.6%) |
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3158 times (22.8%) |
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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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9656 times |
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7147 times (52.0%) |
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medium |
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2509 times (18.3%) |
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4091 times (29.8%) |
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According to Huck Finn (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer), what is a dead cat good for?
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750 times |
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458 times (49.3%) |
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medium |
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292 times (31.4%) |
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179 times (19.3%) |
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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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1824 times |
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1035 times (40.2%) |
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789 times (30.7%) |
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750 times (29.1%) |
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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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1170 times |
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278 times (19.6%) |
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very difficult |
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892 times (62.9%) |
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247 times (17.4%) |
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In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, whose soliloquy does the Duke mangle horribly?
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14663 times |
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9525 times (44.0%) |
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5138 times (23.7%) |
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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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2500 times |
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392 times (12.3%) |
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2108 times (66.1%) |
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Who wrote "The Garden of Forking Paths"?
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366 times |
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240 times (32.9%) |
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After what author did Kurt Vonnegut name his son?
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247 times |
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102 times (21.3%) |
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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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267 times |
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93 times (28.3%) |
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174 times (52.9%) |
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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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233 times (77.7%) |
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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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212 times |
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70 times (24.6%) |
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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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865 times (63.2%) |
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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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333 times (50.4%) |
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239 times (36.2%) |
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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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4482 times |
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2280 times (39.6%) |
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2202 times (38.2%) |
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What is the title of Mark Twain's book about his European travels?
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| Answered: |
3990 times |
| Correct: |
3263 times (65.7%) |
| Difficulty: |
medium |
| Incorrect: |
727 times (14.6%) |
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975 times (19.6%) |
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What was Mark Twain's real name?
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| Answered: |
3205 times |
| Correct: |
3028 times (91.3%) |
| Difficulty: |
very easy |
| Incorrect: |
177 times (5.3%) |
| Skipped: |
110 times (3.3%) |
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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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1830 times |
| Correct: |
1440 times (56.8%) |
| Difficulty: |
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| Incorrect: |
390 times (15.4%) |
| Skipped: |
704 times (27.8%) |
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