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What is the setting for "The Invalid's Story?
showing good judgment
"The Invalid's Story"
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showing good judgment
prodigious
desultory
judicious
placidly
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What is the setting for "The Invalid's Story?
airplane
bus
house
traincar
3
enormous
deleterious
ominous
prodigious
judicious
4
Which of the following is NOT something the narrator and Thompson did to mask the smell?
smoke cigars
burn items
sprinkle carbolic acid
spray perfume
5
Who is the "invalid" referred to in the story's title?
the colonel
the narrator
John Hackett
Thompson
6
A ____________________ is an event, action, or a feeling that produces a result.
dialect
dialogue
cause
effect
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Mark Twain grew up around what river?
Wakulla
Nile
Tallapoosa
Mississippi
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calmly; quietly
prodigious
desultory
placidly
ominous
9
Why did Thompson "gaged and gasped, and floundered up and made a break for the door... saying 'Don't Hender me'"
he exaggerates everything
he had food poisoning
the smell in the car was unbearable
the railroad car reached its final destination
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What point of view does Twain use?
first person
limited
objective
third person
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harmful to health or well-being
desultory
judicious
ominous
deleterious
12
The story centers around a man's train trip from Ohio to _____ in the middle of a winter storm.
Cleveland
Illinois
Wisconsin
Chicago
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What is the main lesson of the story?
the fatal danger of exposure to the cold
the burden of fulfilling someone's wishes
the inevitablity and power of death
the effect of mistaking appearance for reality
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random
ominous
prodigious
desultory
placidly
15
A way of speaking that is common to people of a region or group is called ____________________.
effect
cause
dialect
dialogue
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_____ was the name of the friend who had died
Twain
Hackett
Twain
Deacon Levi
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___________________________ is the author of "The Invalid's Story."
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Jack London
John Steinbeck
Mark Twain
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A box of _____ was mistaken for the coffin containing the body of the narrator's friend.
guns
cheese
cigars
chicken feathers
19
Who is the person that dies?
John B. Hackett
Cap, the narrator
the expressman, Thompson
Deacon Levi Hackett
20
According to the narrator, what was the root of his permanent health breakdown?
infection
ambition
overwork
imagination
21
A conversation between or among characters in a literary work is called ___________________.
effect
cause
dialogue
dialect
22
Mark Twain's real name is _____________________.
Lee Parks
Johnathan Oldstyle
Samuel Clemens
Roger Clevenger
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threatening
desultory
ominous
placidly
prodigious
24
When does Twain use dialect?
when the narrator speaks
never
only when they are cold
when Thompson speaks
25
The cause is ____________ it happens.
when
why
what