Life on the Mississippi Review

Front

According to the selection from Life on the Mississippi, how does the town change when the steamboats stop there?

Back

It goes from sleepy to frantically busy for a short time.

Front

What did the Mississippi River represent to Twain as a boy?

Back

a pathway to adventure

Front

According to the selection from Life on the Mississippi, what makes the steamboat such a source of fascination for the boys?

Back

It is a connection to the world outside Hannibal.

Front

In the selection from Life on the Mississippi, what is the main impression created by Twain’s depiction of the steamboat?

Back

an impression of splendor and boldness

Front

In the selection from Life on the Mississippi, what main character flaw does Twain reveal in himself as a boy?

Back

envy

Front

Which of the following sights is most likely to be described as having grandeur?

• a bare stage after a show ends
• a snow-capped mountain range
• a busy kitchen in a popular diner
• a traffic jam in a major coastal city

Back

a snow-capped mountain range

Front

If a candlestick is gilded, what is most likely to be true about it?

Back

It will have a yellow gleam when the candle is lit.

Front

Which sentence best illustrates the word eminence?
1. The legendary soldier was knighted by the queen.
2. The student of architecture received his degree in May.
3. The popular storyteller often visits schools in our town.
4. The former librarian recently celebrated her 90th birthday.

Back

The legendary soldier was knighted by the queen.

Front

What 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.

Back

The reader is moved to learn that the river is beautiful but forsaken.

Front

Which pair of phrases from the passage best supports that the following passage creates the effect of the reader being moved to learn that the river is beautiful but forsaken? [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. Options: the majestic, the magnificent … very still and brilliant and lonely, rolling its mile-wide tide … dense forest away on the other side, along, shining in the sun … bounding the river-glimpse, rolling its mile-wide tide … turning it into a sort of sea

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the majestic, the magnificent … very still and brilliant and lonely