The Grammardog Guide to Life on the Mississippicontains 16 analytical multiple choice quizzes with a total of over 250 questions. These multiple choice questions based on text sentences from the travel book by Mark Twain are excellent teaching tools, providing the basis for thoughtful, engaging activities for your students.
Figurative language describes the voyage up the Mississippi ("gray beards of Spanish moss," "water's mulatto complexion," "the desert of water," "dense forest that guards the two banks," "angry ridge of water," "a boat hates shoal water"). Allusions include many references to literature (Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Dante, Don Quixote, Frankenstein, Richard III, Othello).
