Mark Twain: from "Life on the Mississippi" - Read

Question 1

note

Answer 1

• exposition (character and setting details)
• turning point/rising action (the main conflict is introduced)
• climax (the main conflict begins to be resolved)
• falling action (where other conflicts are resolved)
• resolution (where the main conflict is finally resolved)

Question 2

according to his account in Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain contrived a new career because

Answer 2

of the lack of ships going to the Amazon and lack of money

Question 3

according to Twain in paragraph 3 of life on the mississippi, why did the boat pilot hug the shore and drive so close to the other ships

Answer 3

he was going upstream, and the current was easier close to shore

Question 4

according to Twain in paragraph 34 of life on the mississippi, what had he lost in knowing the rive as familiarly as “the letters of the alphabet”?

Answer 4

he had lost all the grace, the beauty, the poetry … of the majestic river

Question 5

in the underlined passage from paragraph 32 of life on the mississippi, Mark Twain compares the river with

Answer 5

a book

Question 6

when mr. bixby told Mark Twain to get a memorandum book and take notes, Twain

Answer 6

didn’t believe him at first; he thought he was “stretching”