This websearch was created for Dunlap Middle School
as part of a literature unit for the seventh grade.
copywright 2007 by RErwin
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Mark Twain Web Quest

 

Name: ____________________________________

 

Directions: Click on links to answer the following questions.

 

Hannibal.net The Hannibal Courier-Post -Click to Timeline

1. What is Mark Twain's real name?

2. When and where was Mark Twain born?

3. What year did he leave Hannibal? Where did he go?

4. What year was Tom Sawyer publilshed?

5.What year was Huck Finn published?

 

Hannibal.net The Hannibal Courier-Post -Click on Biography

6. Who were Mark Twain's parents?

7. What year did the family move to Hannibal?

8. How much money did he pay to apprentice as a riverboat captain?

9.Who did Mark Twain marry?____ What year?_____

10. On what date did Mark Twain die? What appeared at both his birth and death?

 

Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum - Virtual Tour

11. Where was Mark Twain's home located?

12. How many years did the family live there?

13. Who bought the house and donated it to the city? _____ What year?_____

14. In what year was the restoration started? ______ What year did it finish?______

15. What famous scene from Tom Sawyer occured in the dining room?

 

Caving with Tom Sawyer
 
16. What is another name for Mark Twain's cave?
 
17. This cave was made famous in what book?
 
18. Who discovered the cave? _______ What year?______
 
19. Who bought the cave?
 
20. What bizarre experiment was found in the cave? 
 
This websearch was created for Dunlap Middle School
as part of a literature unit for the seventh grade.
copywright 2007 by RErwin