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Chapters 1-3
Reading Check
Short Answer
1. He makes a humorous remark about wanting to own half of a dog, and his sarcasm flies over the heads of the townsfolk to whom he is speaking. They decide that only a very stupid person—a “pudd’nhead”—would want to own half a dog. (Chapter 1)
2. He threatens to sell them “down the river,” meaning into the worse conditions enslaved people face in the plantation states. (Chapter 2)
3. Roxy’s initial plan is to drown both herself and Chambers in the river so that neither will have to live the rest of their lives under the threat of being sold down the river. (Chapter 3)
Chapters 4-6
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Short Answer
By Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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A True Story
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Letters from the Earth
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Life on the Mississippi
Life on the Mississippi
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Roughing It
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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The Autobiography of Mark Twain
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
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The Gilded Age
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The Innocents Abroad
The Innocents Abroad
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The Invalid's Story
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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
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The Mysterious Stranger
The Mysterious Stranger
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The Prince and the Pauper
The Prince and the Pauper
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The War Prayer
The War Prayer
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