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Exploring the Life and Works of Mark Twain

This quiz explores the life, works, and legacy of Mark Twain, one of America's most celebrated authors. Test your knowledge on his beliefs, literary contributions, and personal history.

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1 Although Twain was raised as a Presbyterian, he was critical of organized religion and certain elements of ________ through most of his later life.

2 A year later, he traveled to the Sandwich Islands (present-day Hawaii) as a reporter for the ________.

3 Which of the following genres does Mark Twain produce?

4 How is Mark Twain described?

5 This type of storyline would later become a common feature of the science fiction sub-genre, ________.

6 What is Mark Twain also known as?

7 Twain's first important work, "________", was first published in the New York Saturday Press on November 18, 1865.

8 In March 1847, when Twain was 11, his father died of ________.

9 What is the nationality of Mark Twain?

10 The family home he had built in Hartford, Connecticut, where he and his wife raised their three daughters, is preserved and open to visitors as the ________.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • cookbook Seduced by Bacon by Joanna Pruess not only includes a recipe for pecan, brown sugar, and bacon ice cream, but also writings by Mark Twain.
  • at age 13 Susy Clemens wrote a biography of her father Mark Twain that was included in his posthumously published work, Chapters from my Autobiography.
  • in 1908 Eulabee Dix painted the last portrait from life of Mark Twain.
  • the 1930 film Tom Sawyer was the third screen adaptation of Mark Twain's novel, following silent versions in 1907 and 1917.
  • the carom billiards game, cushion caroms, was enjoyed on occasion by Mark Twain.
  • the lead ship of the Frederick Funston class, the USS Frederick Funston (APA-89), was named after a US Army General lampooned by Mark Twain.
  • The Man Who Came Early, a 1956 time travel short story by Poul Anderson, was written as the antithesis of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
  • Julia A. Moore inspired the character of Emmeline Grangerford in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
  • Mark Twain and General Custer visited P. T. Barnum in Iranistan.
  • Mark Twain's daughter Clara Clemens was saved from being dragged over a cliff by a horse by her future husband, the Russian-born concert pianist Ossip Gabrilowitsch.
  • Mark Twain wrote the essay "The Awful German Language" to express his frustrations when learning German.
  • Albert Bigelow Paine was the literary executor for Mark Twain, a member of the Pulitzer Prize Committee, and a recipient of the title of Chevalier in the Légion d'honneur for his books about Joan of Arc.
  • Joseph Mabry's death in a shootout with another businessman was chronicled by Mark Twain in Life on the Mississippi.
  • "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was one of the stories Mark Twain published in the San Francisco weekly literary newspaper The Californian.
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