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James Quiz 1

1 Who wrote James?
Bryan Washington

Just James

Percival Everett

Mark Twain
2 Who narrates James?
Jim

Percival

Huck

Mark
3 What form does James take?
Novel

Epic poem

Short story

Play
4 In what century is James set?
1700s

1800s

1900s

2000s
5 In what country is the book set?
Mexico

Mississppi

Canada

United States
6 Around which body of water does much of book's events take place?
Ohio River

Pacific Ocean

Mississippi River

Lake Michigan
7 In what state does Huck live?
Mississippi

Michigan

Missouri

Illinois
8 On which novel was James based?
Erasure

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

It is not based on any other work
9 In what tense is James narrated?
The tense changes almost every sentence

Past tense

Future tense

Present tense
10 How many parts is the book divided into?
2

3

30

1
11 Who is the protagonist of James?
Everett

Jim

Twain

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

Firewood

Cornbread

Whisky
13 What does Miss Watson question Jim about having touched?
Her VHS collection

Her pots and pans

One of Judge Thatcher's books

Her pies
14 Who is Sadie to Jim?
His sister

His cousin

His wife

His best friend
15 Who is Lizzie to Jim?
His daughter

His sister

His niece

His wife
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 a slave and it was his master's idea of a joke

He is secretly a woman

Doris used to be a masculine name

Doris was his father's name too
18 In the book, how do enslaved people converse with each other when white people are listening?
They speak with eloquence and intelligence

They speak as eloquently and properly as they can, but it is difficult because they are uneducated

They pretend like they can't hear each other

They speak with improper diction and grammar to sound uneducated
19 In the book, how do enslaved people converse with each other when only black people are listening?
They speak with eloquence and intelligence

They prefer not to speak with each other

They only say positive things about their masters

They speak with improper diction and grammar to sound uneducated
20 Who does Miss Watson ask to keep an eye on Huck's wellbeing?
Sadie

Jim

Judge Thatcher

Doris
21 Why does Miss Watson worry about Huck's Pap being back in town?
Pap is an abusive alcoholic who beats Huck

She owes Pap money

She knows Pap is not Huck's real father

She stole Huck from Pap
22 Why does Jim teach enslaved children to speak with less apparent intelligence when around white people?
He knows it is safer for slaves if white people think themselves superior

He is training them eventually to revolt against their masters

He thinks it is funny to hear them mispronounce things

None of these
23 Based on what Jim tells Huck, what was Jim's father's ethnicity most likely?
Native American

Chinese

White

Black
24 Which answer best defines pilfer?
Consume

Sublimate

Steal

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

Huck

Lizzie

Miss Watson

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