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Which of the following authors died after choking on the cap to a bottle of eye drops?
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In The Trouble Begins at 8 A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West by Sid Fleischman, what color was Mark Twain's hair before it turned white?
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In The Trouble Begins at 8 A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West by Sid Fleischman, who acted as Mark Twain's second in the duel with James Laird?
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In The Trouble Begins at 8 A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West by Sid Fleischman, what was the headline the day after Mark Twain's lecture on the Sandwich Islands?
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In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, what event does Tom attend?
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2180 times (59.9%) |
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What is Tom's brother's name in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain?
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Of which American author (whom he greatly admired) did Henry James publish a critical study in 1879, one which proved rather controversial in the USA?
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351 times (28.7%) |
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What was Mark Twain's real name?
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162 times (91.5%) |
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Mark Twain's real name is?
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524 times (94.2%) |
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Which of the following celestial phenomena fortuitously helps the Connecticut Yankee to convince King Arthur and his minions that he wields magical powers, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain?
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The play Jabberwock is based on the adolescent memories of whom?
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Which author does Mark Twain famously desire to beat with her own dead bones?
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439 times (58.1%) |
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71 times (9.4%) |
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![In Mark Twain's "[b:The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn|2956|The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn|Mark Twain|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1161831948s/2956.jpg|1835605]", what is the town which Huck and Jim are trying to reach?](http://photo.goodreads.com/questions/1208671411p1/2145.jpg)
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In Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", what is the town which Huck and Jim are trying to reach?
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Fictional detective, Auguste C. Dupin, was created by:
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Which 19th-century American writer once exclaimed that he would rather "be damned to John Bunyan's heaven" than read Henry James's novel, The Bostonians?
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800 times |
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565 times (50.9%) |
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In the final years of his life, Stephen Crane lived close to a fellow American writer who befriended him and helped him financially during difficult times. Who is that writer?
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Tom Sawyer tells Judge Thatcher that the first two disciples were...
(Tom Sawyer)
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In Mark Twain's 'The Prince and the Pauper', who is the prince of the title?
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From the novel Katherine by Anya Seton her sister Phillippa de Roet married what famous author and poet?
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122 times (47.7%) |
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53 times (20.7%) |
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The transported "Yankee" in King Arthur's Court in Twain's novel hails from:
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690 times (65.6%) |
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207 times (19.7%) |
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Who is it implied that "The Mysterious Stranger" is in Mark Twain's classic story?
The Mysterious Stranger
Mark Twain
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Who gave us the following appreciation of Jane Austen's work?
"Jane Austen is thus a mistress of much deeper emotion than appears upon the surface. She stimulates us to supply what is not there. What she offers is, apparently, a trifle, yet is composed of something that expands in the reader's mind and endows with the most enduring form of life scenes which are outwardly trivial. Always the stress is laid upon character. ... Think away the surface animation, the likeness to life, and there remains, to provide a deeper pleasure, an exquisite discrimination of human values. Dismiss this too from the mind and one can dwell with extreme satisfaction upon the more abstract art which ... so varies the emotions and proportions the parts that it is possible to enjoy it, as one enjoys poetry, for itself, and not as a link which carries the story this way and that."
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Who said this about Jane Austen: "Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone" ?
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What celestial event figures prominently in Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?
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Who described Jane Austen as "the most perfect artist among women?"
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"A home without a cat -- and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat -- may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?"
Who said this?
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Mark Twain's notorious jumping frog hailed from:
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532 times (63.7%) |
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Her own critical reaction to which author's novels -- to which she had been introduced by her father -- prompted Louise Erdrich's desire to contribute to the creation of a less stereotypical and more complex literary image of Native Americans, and was thus one of the triggers of her literary career?
(Hint: Whose/what kind of books would Erdrich's father likely have read in his own youth?)
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In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck & Jim encounter a wrecked & sinking riverboat while journeying down the Mississippi River. Mark Twain named the ruined boat after a famous British novelist whose work he hated. What was the name of the riverboat?
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According to Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi, who taught Twain how to be a river pilot?
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