The Grammardog Guide to Short Stories by Mark Twain contains 16 analytical multiple choice quizzes with a total of over 250 questions. These multiple choice questions based on text sentences from the short stories are excellent teaching tools, providing the basis for thoughtful, engaging activities for your students.
Short Stories: The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Luck, Is He Living Or Is He Dead?, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, The Mysterious Stranger.
Figurative language includes: "the next minute you'd see that frog whirling in the air like a doughnut" "he traveled like a duke" "a tornado of applause" "as solid as a gob of mud" "from the top of the precipice frowned a vast castle" "man is a museum of diseases" "I have examined his billion of possible careers." Allusions include: Frankenstein, Caesar, Napoleon, Socrates, Daniel Webster, Andrew Jackson.
