Mark Twain Multiple Choice Questions and Answers for Practice

16. Mark Twain was an advocate for which social cause?

1. Slavery
2. Civil rights
3. Colonialism
4. Imperialism

17. What literary device did Twain frequently use in his writing?

1. Simile
2. Allegory
3. Irony
4. Hyperbole

18. Which novel involves time travel and satire on medieval society?

1. "The Prince and the Pauper"
2. "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"
3. "Roughing It"
4. "The Gilded Age"

19. What pseudonym did Mark Twain use before "Mark Twain"?

1. Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass
2. John Jackson
3. Henry Clemens
4. Paul Hawthorne

20. Mark Twain’s work is often associated with which American literary movement?

1. Romanticism
2. Realism
3. Modernism
4. Postmodernism

21. What did the term "Mark Twain" mean in riverboat terminology?

1. Safe water depth
2. Dangerous waters
3. A call for help
4. A river turning point

22. Mark Twain invested heavily in which failed invention?

1. Typewriter
2. Printing press
3. Paige typesetting machine
4. Telegraph

23. In which year was Mark Twain born?

1. 1830
2. 1835
3. 1840
4. 1850

24. Which of Twain’s works explores his travels to Europe and the Middle East?

1. "Roughing It"
2. "The Innocents Abroad"
3. "Life on the Mississippi"
4. "A Tramp Abroad"

25. Mark Twain described which character as “a combination of reality and fantasy”?

1. Huckleberry Finn
2. Tom Sawyer
3. The King and the Duke
4. Jim

26. What type of family was Twain born into?

1. Wealthy landowners
2. Middle-class merchants
3. Modest and struggling
4. Aristocracy

27. Mark Twain wrote for which humor magazine?

1. Punch
2. The Onion
3. The Galaxy
4. The Californian

28. Which Twain novel focuses on switched identities between a prince and a pauper?

1. "Roughing It"
2. "A Tramp Abroad"
3. "The Prince and the Pauper"
4. "The Gilded Age"

29. Mark Twain considered what his "masterpiece"?

1. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
2. "The Innocents Abroad"
3. "The Prince and the Pauper"
4. "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"

30. How many children did Mark Twain have?

1. Two
2. Three
3. Four
4. Five