1. What was Mark Twain's real name?
A. Lawrence Smith
B. Clem Samuels
C. Harry Jefferson
D. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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2. When and where was Mark Twain born?
A. December 15, 1833 in Baltimore, Maryland
B. March 7, 1847 in Princeton, New Jersey
C. June 24, 1863 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
D. November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri
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3. How old was Twain when he had to leave school following the death of his father?
A. 10
B. 12
C. 14
D. 16
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4. What was Twain's first job?
A. Journalist
B. Carpenter
C. Baker
D. Printer
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5. Which of these novels was written first?
A. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
C. Tom Sawyer Abroad
D. A Murder, a Mystery and a Marriage
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6. Who did Twain marry in 1870?
A. Olivia Langdon
B. Diana Dell
C. Olive Oak
D. Helen Hunter
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7. When did Twain publish "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court"?
A. 1889
B. 1894
C. 1879
D. 1882
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8. What was the name of Mark Twain’s daughter who died in 1896?
A. Polly
B. Cindy
C. Susy
D. Miranda
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9. What is the name of Mark Twain’s character who has adventures on the Mississippi with
a runaway slave?
A. Slick Willy
B. Dirty Harry
C. Slim Pickens
D. Huck Finn
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10. What year did Mark Twain die?
A. 1882
B. 1897
C. 1910
D. 1906
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Задания викторины второй этап:
1. Match the book and its description
1. Pudd'nhead Wilson A. This novel is about a middle-aged man named Hank Morgan who magically
travels back in time from the 19th Century to A.D. 528 Camelot.
2. A Connecticut
Yankee in King
Arthur's Court
B. In 16th-century England, young Prince Edward and Tom Canty, a pauper boy
who looks exactly like him, are suddenly forced to change places.
3. The Gilded Age
C. This book is based on letters Mark Twain wrote from Europe to newspapers in
San Francisco and New York as a roving correspondent on board the chartered
vessel “Quaker City” through Europe with a group of American travelers in 1867.
4. The Mysterious
Stranger
D. This book is filled with good humor and adventure. The idealized childhood of
this fictional hero, based on the author’s own early life along the banks of the
Mississippi.
5. The Prince and the E. The autobiography of a microbe, who in a former existence was a man.
Pauper
6. 3,000 Years
Among the Microbes
F. In this novel Mark Twain satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil
War America.
7. The adventures of
Tom Sawyer
G. Here Twain presents rather grim views of God, man and the universe.
8. The Innocents
abroad
H. Tells the story of two infants, one slave, one free, that were switched at birth.
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2. Guess the story of Mark Twain using the pictures.
A. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
E. The Innocents abroad
B. Pudd'nhead Wilson
F. The stolen white elephant
C. Captain Stormfield’s visit to Heaven
G. The adventures of Tom Sawyer
D. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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3. Let’s remember “TheAdventures of Tom Sawyer”. Match 2 columns:
1. Joe Harper
A. Tom falls in love with her
2. Becky Thatcher B. Tom lives with her family
3. Mary
C. The son of the town drunk
4. Aunt Polly
D. She is Tom’s cousin
5. Huck Finn
E. Tom’s friend
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