Mark Twain Burns

1. Mark Twain is a pen name. His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
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2. Twain was born in 1835 in the state of Florida.
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3. Twain said he never saw his father.
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4. Twain's mother liked to hear and tell stories.
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5. Living in Hannibal, Missouri filled Twain with a lifetime of memories.
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6. Twain's boyhood friend, Tom Blankenship, was son of the town minister.
False
7. In Twain's opinion, Tom Blankenship was the only independent and happy
person in town.
True
8. Twain's life in Hannibal had an "undercurrent" that included death, drowning,
and nightmares.
True
9. As a boy, Twain heard stories from slaves like Uncle Daniel and Aunt Hannah.
True
10. Twain said the saddest faces he ever saw were those of 12 slaves being
shipped downstream.
True
11. At age 14, Twain apprenticed at the newspaper Hannibal Journal where his
father worked.
False
12. Twain's brother, Orion, never paid him for working as a printer's apprentice.
True
13. At age 17, Twain set off down the Mississippi River having promised his
mother not to drink or gamble.
True
14. Writing under the name Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass, Twain earned $5 for
humorous articles.
True
15. One of Twain's ambitions was to make a fortune in the Brazilian cocoa
industry.
True
16. Another of Twain's ambitions was to be a steamboatman.
True
17. Twain apprenticed as a steamboatman in Nevada.
False
18. Mark Twain means 2 fathoms deep, 12 feet, safe water.
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19. Twain learned to read the Mississippi River like a good book.
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20. In 1858, Twain and his brother, Henry, worked on the same riverboat.
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21. Henry died when the boat's boilers exploded near Memphis, Tennessee.
True
22. Twain blamed himself for the death because he lured Henry onto the river.
True
23. Twain never lost his remorse.
True
24. Twain used humor to cope with sorrow.
True
25. At one point, 100,000 steamboats moved up and down the Mississippi River.
True
26. At one point, steamboats on the Mississippi River carried more cargo than
freight ships at sea.
True
27. Twain was an enormous noticer.
True
28. The Mississippi River was Twain's education, his Harvard and Yale.
True
29. Starting in April 1861, the Civil War stopped travel and transport on the
Mississippi River.
True
30. Twain's brother, Orion, campaigned for Ronald Reagan.
False
31. Twain joined the Confederate Marion Rangers and fought at the Battle of
Gettysburg.
False
32. As a reward, Abraham Lincoln appointed Orion Secretary of the Nevada
Territory.
True
33. Twain went with Orion to Nevada.
True
34. For Twain, nothing helps scenery like ham and eggs.
35. At the time, Carson City was the capital of the Nevada Territory.
36. Twain made a fortune mining gold and silver in Nevada.
37. In Virginia City, Nevada, Twain worked at a newspaper covering local events
for $25 a week.
38. In 1846, Samuel Clemens ended a dispatch with his pen name, Mark Twain.
39. In 1864, Twain left Nevada because he had been challenged to a duel he was
sure he'd lose.
40. In San Francisco, Twain worked for a newspaper, The Morning Call, for $40 a
week.
41. In San Francisco, Twain met other American writers like Ambrose Bierce and
Bret Harte.
42. In San Francisco, Twain wrote an article attacking police corruption.
43. In San Francisco, Twain was jailed for public drunkenness.
44. In San Francisco, Twain was fired from his job at a newspaper.
45. In San Francisco, Twain put a revolver to his head and contemplated suicide.
46. In 1865, Twain sent a story about a jumping frog to Artemus Ward, a popular
humorist.
47. Artemus Ward hated the story.
48. In 1866, Twain went to Idaho for another newspaper, the Sacramento Union.
49. A friend suggested that Twain turn his articles into public lectures.
50. Before his first lecture, Twain was calm and composed.
51. In his first lecture, Twain spoke for more than one hour and earned $400.
52. Twain's lecture tour across northern California was a huge success.
53. In June 1867, Twain took a pleasure cruise to the Middle East.
54. Twain placed America, not Europe, at the center of the cultural universe.
55. Twain traveled to Beirut by ostrich pack train.
56. A camel ate his new coat.

57. Jervis Langdon made millions as a drug runner in Colombia.
58. Twain proposed to Langdon's daughter, Olivia, after knowing her only a few
days.
59. Olivia's parents wanted character witnesses for Twain.
60. When Olivia agreed to marry Twain, he wrote, "I'm so happy, I want to kiss
somebody."
61. Twain's 1869 novel The Innocents Abroad was a commercial success.
62. Twain said about his commercial appeal, "Great books are wine, my books are
watered down."
63. William Dean Howells of the Atlantic Monthly promoted Twain as a people's
author.
64. When Twain married in 1870, his father-in-law gave him a newspaper and a
house with servants.
65. When her father died, Olivia danced.
66. During Twain's life, Hartford, Connecticut was the most prosperous
community in America.
67. Twain's personality included a dark and depressive streak.
68. Twain concluded that all people are religious: They worship money.
69. Twain described the national prosperity of the 1870s as "The Gilded Age."
70. Twain's Connecticut home comprised 3 floors, 19 rooms, 7 servants, speaking

tubes, and servants.
71. Twain overspent on his Connecticut home and to pay for it, returned to the
lecture circuit.
72. Life as Mrs. Mark Twain was constant luxury and ease.
73. At times, Olivia was tempted to give up.
74. Twain had a temper and once hurled his pets out a window because of a
missing button.
75. Twain never forgot that race is a central fact of American ongoing history.
76. Twain wrote a powerful retrospective of Aunt Rachel and her life shattered by
slavery.
77. Aunt Rachel said her life had not trouble...and no joy.
78. Routinely, Twain would write all day then read what he wrote to his family at
night.
79. The character Tom Sawyer was based on a young Samuel Clemens.
80. The character Huck Finn was based on a young Tom Blankenship, son of
Hannibal's town drunk.
81. Twain was so dedicated to writing that he wrote left-handed when his right
hand became too arthritic.
82. Twain was a meticulous craftsman of sentences.
83. Twain wrote Adventures of Huckleberry Finn off and on between 1974 and
1984.
84. At one point, Twain thought he would burn the Huck Finn manuscript.
85. In April 1882, Twain took a trip down the Mississippi River and saw the failure
of emancipation.
86. Twain's masterpiece is his novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
87. According to some scholars, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn liberated

American literature from European influence.
88. According to some scholars, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the start of
American literature.
89. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain demystifies and deromanticizes

slavery by using realistic depiction.
90. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain humanizes all people, regardless of

race.
91. To see Jim as an equal human being, Huck must unlearn powerful social,
cultural, and religious lessons.
92. A great moral awakening happens when Huck says, "All right, then, I'll go to
bed."
93. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is America's Homeric epic.
94. Unlike writers before him, Twain looks at race honestly, realistically, right in
the face, and tells the uncomfortable truth.
95. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is Twain's hymn to the solidarity of the human
race.

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1. Mark Twain is a pen name. His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

36. Twain made a fortune mining gold and silver in Nevada.

42. In San Francisco, Twain wrote an article attacking police corruption.

43. In San Francisco, Twain was jailed for public drunkenness.

47. Artemus Ward hated the story.

55. Twain traveled to Beirut by ostrich pack train.

56. A camel ate his new coat.

59. Olivia's parents wanted character witnesses for Twain.

65. When her father died, Olivia danced.

70. Twain's Connecticut home comprised 3 floors, 19 rooms, 7 servants, speaking

73. At times, Olivia was tempted to give up.

82. Twain was a meticulous craftsman of sentences.

86. Twain's masterpiece is his novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

87. According to some scholars, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn liberated

89. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain demystifies and deromanticizes

90. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain humanizes all people, regardless of

93. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is America's Homeric epic.

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