The Life and Works of Mark Twain Trivia Questions
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This Missouri town on the Mississippi River served as the inspiration for St. Petersburg in a beloved novel about a boy and his whitewashed fence.
Difficulty: Easy- St. Louis
- Independence
- Hannibal
- Jefferson City
The author died in 1910 in this Connecticut town, in the same house where he spent his final years.
Difficulty: Medium- Redding
- Hartford
- New Haven
- Greenwich
This 1870 essay defending Chinese immigrants against violence and discrimination was written but not delivered for political reasons.
Difficulty: Hard- To the Person Sitting in Darkness
- The United States of Lyncherdom
- Chinese Immigration
- Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy
Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, this author chose his famous pen name from a riverboat term meaning two fathoms deep.
Difficulty: Easy- O. Henry
- Jack London
- Mark Twain
- Bret Harte
In this dark late novel, an angelic visitor named Satan befriends Austrian village boys and demonstrates humanity's lack of free will.
Difficulty: Medium- No. 44
- The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
- What Is Man?
- Letters from the Earth
This 1901 essay attacking American lynching culture was withheld from publication during the author's lifetime.
Difficulty: Hard- The United States of Lyncherdom
- To the Person Sitting in Darkness
- King Leopold's Soliloquy
- The War Prayer
This runaway slave and companion helps a young boy escape on a raft down the Mississippi River in a controversial American classic.
Difficulty: Easy- Joe
- Tom
- Ben
- Jim
This author's semi-autobiographical 1906 dictations were intended for publication 100 years after his death to protect the innocent.
Difficulty: Medium- Life on the Mississippi
- Roughing It
- Personal Recollections
- Autobiography of Mark Twain
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