from "Life on the Mississippi" (My Perspectives )(Spring 2023)

Life on the Mississippi was written by . . .

• Mark Twain

• O' Henry

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Booker T. Washington

The boys in the story have ambition. "Ambition" means . . .

• a strong desire to succeed

• short-lived

• easy to notice

• covered in gold

The boys' greatest ambition is to be a . . .

• steamboatman

• clown

• pirate

• cowboy

Mark Twain said, "We had transient ambitions of other sorts, but they were only transient. What does "transient" mean?

• short-lived

• long-lived

• easily noticed

• a strong desire to succeed.

According to the story, what brings life to Hannibal, Missouri?

• the "arrival" of the steamboat

• the homecoming parade.

• the "arrival" of the circus

• the Friday Football games at the local high school

You can infer that when Mark Twain says "the fragrant town drunkard" that "fragrant" hear means . . .

• a pleasant smell

• an unpleasant smell

• a "smokey" smell

• a "greasy" smell

When Twain writes, "the boat is rather a handsome sight", he is using what literary device . . .

• personification

• pun

• flashback

• onomatopoeia

Each time the steamboat arrives to town, about how long does it stay?

• 1-2 days

• 1-2 hours

• 10-20 minutes

• all day

According to the excerpt from Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain's father was a . . .

• justice of the peace

• Sunday School teacher

• Steamboatman

• circus clown

Twain writes, "the deckhand who stood on the end of the stage plank with the coil of rope in his hand, because he was particularly conspicuous. "Conspicuous in this sentence means . . .

• easily noticed

• NOT easily noticed

• striving to succeed

• short-lived