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MARK TWAIN
OR
SAMUEL CLEMENS
(1835 – 1910)
 Samuel Langhorne Clemens better known by his pen name Mark Twain was an
American author and humorist.
 He wrote “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876) and its sequel “Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn” (1885) which is also called “The Great American novel”.
 Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which provided the setting for Huckleberry
Finn and Tom Sawyer.
 In 1865, his humorous story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
was published and got International attention.
 He was lauded as the – “greatest American humorist of his age”.
 William Faulkner called him – “The father of American Literature”.
 Twain describes in “Life on the Mississippi” that when he was a boy ‘there was
but one permanent ambition among his comrades: to be a steam boatman’.
 Piloting gave him the name Mark Twain from “mark twain”, the leadsman’s cry
for a measured river depth of two fathoms, which was safe water for a
steamboat.
 Twain, patented, three inventions including an “Improvement in Adjustable and
Detachable Straps for Garments and a history trivia game”.
 Most successful invention of Twain was a ‘self-pasting scrapbook’; a dried
adhesive on the pages needed only to be moistened before use.
 Twain’s novel “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” (1889) features a
time traveler from the contemporary US using his knowledge of science to
introduce modern technology to Arthurian England.
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 Twain formed a club in 1906 for girls, he viewed as surrogate granddaughters

‘The Angel Fish’ and ‘Aquarium Club’.
 Ernest Hemingway said about Mark Twain: – “All Modern American literature
comes from one book by Mark Twain called ‘Huckleberry Finn’.”
 In 1910 he died of heart attack.
Major Works:
i. The Innocents Abroad (1869)
ii. Roughing it (1872)
iii. The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873): It’s a satire on post-civil war America, the
era is called gilded age.
iv. A Tramp Abroad (1880)
v. The Prince and the Pauper (1881)
vi. Life on the Mississippi (1883)
vii. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889)
viii. The Diaries of Adam and Eve (1893, 1905)
ix. The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894)
x. Personal Recollection of Joan of Arc (1896)
xi. Following the Equator (1897) – It is a fifth and last travel book of Twain
xii. The Mysterious Stranger (1916)
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

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(1876)
Summery key points:

 This novel by Twain is about a young boy Tom Sawyer who is growing up along
the Mississippi river.
 It is set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg.
 Tom Sawyer lives with his aunt Polly and his half-brother ‘Sid’. He falls in love
with Becky Thatcher, a new girl in the town.
 Tom Sawyer accompanies Huckleberry Finn to the graveyard at night where they
witness a trio of grave robbers, Dr. Robinson, Muff Potter and Injun Joe, getting
into fight.
 In the fight Potter is knocked unconscious and Injun Joe stabs Doctor Robinson
and puts the murder blame on Potter, who is arrested and charged with
murder.
 When Potter’s trial begins, Tom testifies against Injun Joe and Potter is acquitted
but Injun Joe flees from the window.
 Tom fears for his life as Injun Joe can easily find him.
 While Tom and Huck were on hunting, they saw Injun Joe and his companion
planning to bury some stolen treasure.
 Huck overhears their plan to attack the widow Douglas, Huck prevents the crime
and becomes an anonymous hero.

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 Injun Joe is starved to death in a sealed cave. Tom and Huck takes the box of
gold that was hidden by Injun Joe (carrying 12000$).
 Douglas adopts Huck.
MCQ’s
1. How does Tom trick his friends 4. Who is Sid?
into helping him whitewash the a. Aunt Polly’s boyfriend
fence? b. Tom’s cocker spaniel
a. He offers them marbles. c. Tom’s younger half-brother
b. He promises to go swimming d. Tom’s father
with them when the job is 5. What does Injun Joe do after Tom
done. testifies against him?
c. He tells them Aunt Polly a. He denies his guilt.
wants them to help. b. He flees out the window.
d. He convinces them that the c. He terrorizes the boys.
job is fun. d. He kills Muff Potter.
2. Why do Tom and Huck first go to 6. What insect does Tom release in
the graveyard? church?
a. To dig up a body a. A tick
b. To charm away warts b. A grasshopper
c. To dig for buried treasure c. A ladybug
d. To kill a cat d. A pinch-bug
3. What is Jackson’s Island? 7. Who is blamed for the murder of
a. A small island in the middle Dr. Robinson?
of the Mississippi River a. Muff Potter
b. A tavern in town b. Injun Joe
c. An amusement park in St. c. Hoss Williams
Louis d. Tom Sawyer
d. The setting of Tom’s favorite 8. What does Tom do to win a Bible
adventure book in Sunday school?

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a. He memorizes 2,000 Bible d. Mary, who is too good to

verses. need reforming
b. He takes the blame for 12. What day is bad luck for hunting
someone else’s misdeed. buried treasure?
c. He trades the other children a. Halloween
for their tickets. b. Examination Day
d. He testifies at Muff Potter’s c. Friday
trial. d. Tuesday
9. What does Huck do outside Tom’s 13. Why does Huck not go on the
window to summon him to their picnic?
midnight adventures? a. Because he has promised to
a. He barks like a dog. keep watch for Injun Joe
b. He meows like a cat. b. Because he has not been
c. He crows like a rooster. invited
d. He hoots like an owl. c. Because he cannot stand girls
10. Who is the first of the boys to d. Because he is afraid of boats
suggest abandoning the pirating 14. What happens when Tom and Joe
expedition? learn to smoke?
a. Tom Sawyer a. They win Huck’s friendship.
b. Huckleberry Finn b. They get a whipping from
c. Ben Rogers Aunt Polly.
d. Joe Harper c. They are expelled from
11. Who is unaffected by the revival Sunday school.
that sweeps through town? d. They get sick.
a. Tom Sawyer, who is sick at 15. Who decides to have McDougal’s
the time Cave bolted shut?
b. Huck Finn, who has no a. Judge Thatcher
parents to supervise his b. Mrs. Harper
religious education c. Injun Joe
c. Sid, who is always mean and d. Tom Sawyer
selfish 16. What will become of the treasure
Huck and Tom find?
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a. It will be returned to the b. A noise frightens Injun Joe

rightful owners. away.
b. It will be spent on a memorial c. The staircase begins to
for Injun Joe. crumble.
c. It will be invested for the d. The treasure distracts him.
boys. 21. Why does Injun Joe want revenge
d. It will be donated to the on the Widow Douglas?
Sunday school. a. Because her husband once
17. Who is the only person to hug punished and humiliated
Huck when the three boys return him
for the funeral? b. Because she never returned
a. Tom Sawyer his affections when they
b. Becky Thatcher were younger
c. Muff Potter c. Because she made a racist
d. Aunt Polly comment about Native
18. Who adopts Huck Finn at the end Americans
of the novel? d. Because she will not give him
a. Aunt Polly any ice cream
b. The Widow Douglas 22. Whom does Tom suspect of
c. Judge Thatcher spilling ink on his spelling book?
d. Muff Potter a. Becky Thatcher
19. Whom does Tom encounter in b. Huck Finn
the cave? c. Alfred Temple
a. Judge Thatcher d. Himself
b. Injun Joe 23. What is Huck most afraid of when
c. Huck Finn he and Tom return to the cave to
d. Muff Potter find the treasure?
20. What keeps Injun Joe from a. Injun Joe’s ghost
finding Tom and Huck hidden b. Being locked in
upstairs in the haunted house? c. A band of robbers
a. They jump out the window. d. Bats

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24. Who doesn’t believe Tom’s claim d. Sid

that he dreamed about things 25. What does Tom find behind door
that occurred at home while he No. 2 at the Temperance Tavern?
was pirating on Jackson’s Island? a. Milk and cookies
a. Aunt Polly b. Whiskey and Injun Joe
b. Cousin Mary c. Buried treasure
c. Becky Thatcher d. A dead cat
ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

(1885)
 This novel was first published in United Kingdom in Dec 1884 and in United
States in Feb 1885.
 It is the sequel to “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”.
 The novel is told in first person, by Huckleberry ‘Huck’ Finn, a friend of Tom
Sawyer and narrator of two other novels of Mark Twain, i.e. Tom Sawyer
Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective.
 The novel has a colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi
River.
 The novel is set in Southern Antibellum Society.
 It became controversial because of its coarse language and use of racial
stereotypes.
 It consists of 43 chapters.
Summary Key Points:

 The novel begins with Huck introducing himself as the reader might have heard
him in the past because it is a sequel.

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 Huck has become rich from his last adventure with Tom Sawyer (The Adventures
of Tom Sawyer) and the widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson have taken
Huck into their home in order to try and teach him religion and proper manners.
 However Huck sneaks out of the house at night to join Tom Sawyer’s gang and
pretend that they are robbers and pirates.
 Huck’s father Pap Finn warns Huck of quitting school.
 Huck continues to attend school just to spite Pap.
 Huck’s father Pap kidnaps him and takes him across the Mississippi river to a
small cabin on the Illinois shore.
 Huck feels himself comfortable there because he was free from religion and
school.
 Pap severely beats Huck and Huck faking his own murder escaped the Mississippi.
 Huck lands at Jackson’s island where he met Miss Watson’s slave Jim.
 Huck and Jim learn that men are coming to search Jackson Island so they escaped.
 Jim plan was to reach the Illinois town of Cairo and from there to Ohio River to
reach the Free states.
 Huck and Jim encounter several characters during their flight.
 They confronted the duke and the king and Jim is sold back into slavery.

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 When Huck goes to find Jim, he discovers that Jim is being held captive on Silas at
Sally Phelp’s farm.
 Phelp thinks that Huck is their visiting nephew Tom Sawyer, and Huck easily
falls into the role of Tom Sawyer.
 Tom Sawyer also arrives there and Huck tells him about Jim’s captivity.
 Tom and Huck plan to free Jim.
 Tom plan of freeing Jim was based on the prison and adventure novels that he
has read and thus the simple act of freeing Jim becomes complicated.
 When Jim’s escape was taking place, a farmer shoots Tom in the calf. As Jim
could not leave injured Tom alone, so he was captured again and taken back to
Phelp’s farm.
 Tom reveals the entire scheme to Aunty Sally and Uncle Silas.
 Miss Watson is passed away and freed Jim in her will.
 At the end of the novel, Jim is finally set free and Huck ponders his next
adventure away from civilization.
MCQ’s
1. What is the source of the fortune b. Huck’s father’s life insurance
that Judge Thatcher is keeping in policy
trust for Huck? c. A robber’s stash that Huck
a. Buried treasure and Tom found in a cave

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b. Jim’s hairy chest 7. What is Jim’s initial destination
c. Rain when he and Huck start
d. The wrecked steamboat downriver?
4. Which Wilks sister is initially a. New Orleans
suspicious of Huck? b. An Arkansas plantation
a. Mary Jane c. St. Louis
b. Susan d. The Ohio River
c. Joanna 8. Where does Huck hide the Wilks
d. Sophia family gold?
5. How does Huck know that Pap a. In Peter Wilks’s coffin
has returned to St. Petersburg? b. In the basement
a. Tom tells him c. In a mattress
b. Pap visits Judge Thatcher to d. In an old cabin in the wood
demand Huck’s money 9. Down which river do Huck and
c. The authorities determine Jim travel?
that the corpse found in the a. The Missouri
river is not Pap b. The Mississippi
d. He sees Pap’s boot print in c. The Ohio
the snow d. The Chattahoochee
6. What is the name of the wrecked 10. What event sets off the final
steamboat on which Huck and Jim gunfight between the
encounter the robbers? Shepherdsons and the
Grangerfords?

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a. The death of Harney b. St. Louis

Shepherdson c. Pikesville
b. The theft of the d. St. Petersburg
Grangerfords’ cattle 15. Why does Jim run away from Miss
c. Sophia Grangerford’s Watson’s?
elopement with a a. She treats him poorly.
Shepherdson b. She is planning to sell him,
d. An insult to Colonel which would separate him
Grangerford from his family.
11. How do Huck and Jim initially c. He wants to see relatives in
acquire the raft? New Orleans.
a. They steal it. d. He wants to help Huck
b. They build it. escape his father.
c. They buy it from a slave 16. What charm does Jim wear
trader. around his neck that he says
d. They find it during a flood. cures sickness?
12. What does the “witch pie” that a. A silver key
Huck and Tom bake for b. A five-cent piece
Jim contain? c. A snake tooth
a. A rope ladder d. A rabbit’s foot
b. A pen made from a brass 17. Which of the following is the
candlestick primary influence on Tom Sawyer?
c. An old shirt and a spoon a. His Aunt Polly
d. A dead snake b. Sunday school
13. How do the duke and the dauphin c. Adventure novels
dress Jim so that he can stay on d. Abolitionist speeches
the raft without being tied up? 18. “Temperance” refers to the
a. As a young girl movement designed to abolish
b. As a sick Arab which of the following?
c. As a camel a. Drinking alcohol
d. As a Shakespearean actor b. Slavery
14. What is the name of the town c. School segregation
where Huck, Jim, and Tom live at d. Income taxes
the novel’s opening?
a. Cairo

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19. What kind of animal does Huck a. To the police

kill as part of the plot to fake his b. To the raft
own death? c. To the circus
a. A dog d. To the theater
b. A deer 23. What is Mark Twain’s real name?
c. A fish a. William Jennings Bryan
20. Who finally tells Huck that Pap is b. Henry Williams Norris
dead? c. William Dean Howells
a. Tom d. Samuel Clemens
b. Aunt Polly 24. How does Tom travel to the
c. Jim Phelps farm?
d. Sally Phelps a. By steamboat
21. Which of the following characters b. By horse-cart
gets shot in Jim’s final “escape”? c. By foot
a. Huck d. By train
b. Tom 25. Where does Huck intend to go at
c. Jim the novel’s end?
d. All of the above a. St. Petersburg
22. Where does Huck go after b. The West
Sherburn disperses the lynch mob? c. New York City
d. The Phelps farm

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SUCCESS TIMES

AN INSTITUTION BY EXPERIENCED ACADEMICIANS

SUCCESS TIMES: ONLINE ENGLISH LECTURER ACADEMY

KASHIF ALI #03367084968 kashifmirth@gmail.com

 Twain formed a club in 1906 for girls, he viewed as surrogate granddaughters

ii. Roughing it (1872)

iv. A Tramp Abroad (1880)

v. The Prince and the Pauper (1881)

vi. Life on the Mississippi (1883)

vii. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889)

viii. The Diaries of Adam and Eve (1893, 1905)

ix. The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894)

x. Personal Recollection of Joan of Arc (1896)

xii. The Mysterious Stranger (1916)

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

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Summery key points:

 It is set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg.

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 Douglas adopts Huck.

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a. He memorizes 2,000 Bible d. Mary, who is too good to

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a. It will be returned to the b. A noise frightens Injun Joe

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24. Who doesn’t believe Tom’s claim d. Sid

ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

Summary Key Points:

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 Huck’s father Pap Finn warns Huck of quitting school.

 Huck continues to attend school just to spite Pap.

 Huck and Jim encounter several characters during their flight.

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 Tom and Huck plan to free Jim.

 Miss Watson is passed away and freed Jim in her will.

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d. An inheritance from Huck’s a. The<="" italic="" <=""

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a. The death of Harney b. St. Louis

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19. What kind of animal does Huck a. To the police

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