2. False (He heard the riverboat workers call out the words "mark twain!"...Later he used this word combination as a pen-name.)
3. Not stated
4. True (...Mark Twain used the language of a common, uneducated person to tell the story; no writer had ever done that before.)
5. False (He started writing in 1876, but put the story away after about two years of work. He returned to it in 1883...)
6. True (Some critics praised its realism and honesty but the others strongly disliked it. )
7. False (In 1935 Ernest Hemingway wrote: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called 'Huckleberry Finn.')
8. True (...the novel ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ was a great inspiration for film producers – more than 20 screen versions of the book have been shot not only in America but in Europe, Russia and Japan.)
It is snowing again. It is gorgeous. Just like a fairyland. All white. And the snow is glistening in the sun. But the snow flakes are light, and as I glanced out the window, I have noticed that they melt the moment they hited the pavement so it could not be the weather which makes Andrew late getting home. "I think the traffic and the snow will hold him up," Sarah said. "If it is snowing in Connecticut, it can slow Andrew down, and everyone else who will come back to the city on Sunday night. There , is probably a backup of cars." "That's true, yes," I 155 said, seizing on this possibility, wanting to ease worry. But the fact is, Andrew was never late, and that was what troubled me now. Sarah knew it as well as I was, but neither of us voiced this thought at the moment.
1. Not stated
2. False (He heard the riverboat workers call out the words "mark twain!"...Later he used this word combination as a pen-name.)
3. Not stated
4. True (...Mark Twain used the language of a common, uneducated person to tell the story; no writer had ever done that before.)
5. False (He started writing in 1876, but put the story away after about two years of work. He returned to it in 1883...)
6. True (Some critics praised its realism and honesty but the others strongly disliked it. )
7. False (In 1935 Ernest Hemingway wrote: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called 'Huckleberry Finn.')
8. True (...the novel ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ was a great inspiration for film producers – more than 20 screen versions of the book have been shot not only in America but in Europe, Russia and Japan.)
sun. But the snow flakes are light, and as I glanced out the window, I have noticed that they melt
the moment they hited the pavement so it could not be the weather which makes Andrew late
getting home. "I think the traffic and the snow will hold him up," Sarah said. "If it is snowing in
Connecticut, it can slow Andrew down, and everyone else who will come back to the city on
Sunday night. There , is probably a backup of cars." "That's true, yes," I 155
said, seizing on this possibility, wanting to ease worry. But the fact is, Andrew was never
late, and that was what troubled me now. Sarah knew it as well as I was, but neither of us
voiced this thought at the moment.