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‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ was published in 1876, and soon after he began writing a sequel, ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’.

It took Mark Twain longer to write ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ than any of his other books. He started writing in 1876, but put the story away after about two years of work. He returned to it in 1883, and the following year it was published.

From the beginning, the book was strongly debated. Some critics praised its realism and honesty, but the others strongly disliked it.

They protested against the personality of Huck – a rough, dirty and disobedient boy. They could not agree that such a person should be the main character of a book. What’s more, critics disliked the way Mark Twain used the language of a common, uneducated person to tell the story; no writer had ever done that before.

Today there is no longer any debate about the importance of ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ in American literature. In 1935 Ernest Hemingway wrote: “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called ‘Huckleberry Finn.

’ There was nothing before. And there has been nothing as good since.”

No wonder then that 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 also in Europe, Russia and Japan. There are feature films, musicals, cartoons and even Japanese anime.

13 ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ has been translated into many languages.

1) True 2) False 3) Not stated

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14 The writer took his pen-name when working as an assistant to a publisher.

1) True 2) False 3) Not stated

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15 ‘The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County’ is still on the reading list for American school children.

1) True 2) False 3) Not stated

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16 It took Mark Twain two years to write ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’.

1) True 2) False 3) Not stated

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17 Literary critics expressed different opinions of ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’.

1) True 2) False 3) Not stated

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18 Ernest Hemingway strongly criticised ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’.

1) True 2) False 3) Not stated

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19 The first film on the novel ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ was shot in Europe.