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- Q1According to the selection from Life on the Mississippi, how does the town change when the steamboats stop there?It goes from bustling to dead because everyone is at the wharf.It goes from sleepy to calmly efficient for a couple of hours.It goes from sleepy to frantically busy for a short time.It goes from fairly busy to very busy for ten minutes.60s
- Q2As described in the selection from Life on the Mississippi, what did the Mississippi River represent to Twain as a boy?a pathway to adventurea destructive forcea wonder of naturea chance to make friends45s
- Q3According to the selection from Life on the Mississippi, what makes the steamboat such a source of fascination for the boys?It is connected with stories of shady dealings.It is a marvel of modern technology.It is accessible only to the rich and powerful.It is a connection to the world outside Hannibal.60s
- Q4In the selection from Life on the Mississippi, what is the main impression created by Twain’s depiction of the steamboat?an impression of age and disrepairan impression of splendor and boldnessan impression of efficient sturdinessan impression of grace and calm45s
- Q5In the selection from Life on the Mississippi, what main character flaw does Twain reveal in himself as a boy?lack of imaginationlazinessdishonestyenvy45s
- Q6Which of the following sights is most likely to be described as having grandeur?a bare stage after a show endsa snow-capped mountain rangea busy kitchen in a popular dinera traffic jam in a major coastal city45s
- Q7If a candlestick is gilded, what is most likely to be true about it?It will hold only the thinnest of candles.It will have been used last during the 1800s.It will need to be cleaned thoroughly before it is used.It will have a yellow gleam when the candle is lit.45s
- Q8Which of the following sentences best illustrates the word eminence?The student of architecture received his degree in May.The legendary soldier was knighted by the queen.The former librarian recently celebrated her 90th birthday.The popular storyteller often visits schools in our town.45s
- Q9Read the sentence below from Life on the Mississippi, and then answer the question that follows. That boy had been notoriously worldly, and I just the reverse; yet he was exalted to this eminence, and I left in obscurity and misery. Based on context, which of the following offers the best definition of exalted?athletically giftedheld in high regardlikely to be ignoredsubject to punishment120s
- Q10What is the most likely effect created by the following passage from Life on the Mississippi? [T]he great Mississippi, the majestic, the magnificent Mississippi, rolling its mile-wide tide along, shining in the sun; the dense forest away on the other side; the point above the town, and the point below, bounding the river-glimpse and turning it into a sort of sea, and withal a very still and brilliant and lonely one.The reader is troubled by the river’s still but dangerous nature.The reader is amused to see that the river is a cheerful and bright place.The reader is moved to learn that the river is beautiful but forsaken.The reader is surprised by the river’s turbulence and darkness.120s
- Q11Which pair of phrases from the passage best supports the answer to the previous question?the majestic, the magnificent … very still and brilliant and lonelyalong, shining in the sun … bounding the river-glimpserolling its mile-wide tide … turning it into a sort of searolling its mile-wide tide … dense forest away on the other side60s
- Q12According to the selection from Life on the Mississippi, how do the people of Hannibal usually respond to the arrival of a packet boat?shock and angerbrief annoyancegreat excitementtired acceptance45s
- Q13Which of the following quotations from Life on the Mississippi best illustrates the answer to the previous question?Then such a scramble as there is to get aboard, and to get ashore … and such a yelling and cursing.…[T]wo or three wood flats at the head of the wharf, but nobody to listen to the peaceful lapping of the wavelets against them; the great Mississippi …Before these events, the day was glorious with expectancy; after them, the day was a dead and empty thing.She is long and sharp and trim and pretty; she has two tall, fancy-topped chimneys, with a gilded device of some kind swung between them.…60s
- Q14In the following passage from Life on the Mississippi, what is the most important reason the young Twain wants these two jobs on a steamboat? I first wanted to be a cabin boy, so that I could come out with a white apron on and shake a tablecloth over the side, where all my old comrades could see me; later I thought I would rather be the deckhand who stood on the end of the stage plank with the coil of rope in his hand, because he was particularly conspicuous.He does not really understand what such workers do.He feels that they are the easiest jobs of all.He thinks that they are visible to people on shore.He knows that they are open to young boys.120s
- Q15Which pair of phrases from the passage best supports the answer to the previous question?come out with a white apron … with the coil of rope in his handmy old comrades could see me … he was particularly conspicuouscome out with a white apron … my old comrades could see meshake a tablecloth over the side … stood on the end of the stage plank120s