Here are the important questions about the life and works of Mark Twain including the most important works especially The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. These questions are essential to memorize when you prepare for the literature examination.
Q1: What was the real name of Mark Twain?
Answer: The real name of Mark Twain is Sameul Langhorne Clemens.
Q2: When was Mark Twain born?
Answer: He was born in November 30, 1835.
Q3: Where was Mark Twain born?
Answer: In Florida, Missouri
Q4: What was Twain’s brother name who ran a Journal?
Answer: Orion
Q5: What are the notable works of Mark Twain?
Answer: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Swayer.
Q6: Which novel is often called “The Great American Novel”?
Answer: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Q7: At which profession Twain was a failure?
Answer: Gold Mining so he turned to Journalism
Q8: Which humourous story Twain wrote, that gained much popularity?
Answer: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Q9: What is the Genre of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Answer: It is a picaresque novel.
Q10: When was the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written and published?
Answer: It was written in 1876-1883 and it was published in 1884.
Q11: What is the tone of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Answer: It has ironic and mocking tone.
Q12: What is the setting for the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Answer: The setting is before the Civil War, roughly 1835-1845
Q13: Who is the protagonist of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Answer: The name of protagonist is Huck Finn.
Q14: What are the themes of the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Answer: Racism and slavery and the hypocrisy of civilized society
Q16: What are the symbols of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Answer: The Mississippi River, floods, shipwrecks and the natural world
Q17: What great thing said by Ernest Hemingway about The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Answer: All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Q18: What is the name of his character who has adventures on the Mississippi with a runaway slave?
Answer: Huck Finn
Q19: What is the name of runaway slave?
Answer: Jim
Q20: What is the name of his satirical book?
Answer: The Gilded Age
Q21: How old was Mark Twain when he published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Answer: He was 49 years old.
Q22: What is the name of profession that Twain learned in 1857?
Answer: Steamboat piloting
Q23: What is meant by Mark Twain?
Answer: “Two Fathoms deep”
Q24: What is the name of Twain’s daughter who died in 1896?
Answer: Susy
Q25: When did Mark Twain die?
Answer: He was died in 1910.
Q26: Where did he die?
Answer: He died in United States.
Q26: Where is the resting place of Mark Twain?
Answer: His resting place is in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Q27: Twain was raised in which place?
Answer: Mark Twain was raised in Hannibal which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
