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22 Cards in this Set
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Mark Twain was born in
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Florida, Missouri in 1835
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Mark Twain moved to
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Hannibal, Missouri in 1839
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Mark Twain's birth name was
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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Mark Twain's middle name, Langhorne, was
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his mother's maiden last name
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Twain apprenticed as
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a riverboat pilot
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Twain remained an apprentice as a riverboat pilot until
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1861 when the Civil War interrupted travel along the Mississippi
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Mark Twain trained as
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a confederate soldier
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When Twain was 12 years old,
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his father died
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Mark Twain created his pen name based on his love for the profession of riverboat piloting. A Twain is
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the measurement of depth meaning 12 fathoms ("safe water")
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Mark Twain married
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Olivia Langdon
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How many children did Twain have?
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Four: Susy, Clara, Jean and Langdon
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Twain's son, Langdon,
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died at 19 months
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In 1871, Twain builds
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his "dream house" in Hartford, Connecticut
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In 1893, after several failed inventions, Twain declares
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bankruptcy ($200,000)
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What opportunity did Twain decline due to money problems?
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Alexander Grahm Bell's telephone
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Twain buried
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three of his four children and his wife
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Where did Twain receive his honorary degree?
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Oxford University
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What was the short story that brought Twain fame?
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"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (1865)
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The name of the pre-teen novel that Twain published in 1876
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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The non-fiction novel published in 1883 based on the four years Twain spent on the Mississippi River
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Life on the Mississippi
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in
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1884
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What occurred in the years that Twain was born and died that occurs every 75 years?
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Haley's Comet
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