Who is the inventor of the American Novel?
Mark Twain
What had been an important part of literature before the Civil War?
anti-slavery fiction
Who wrote Uncle tom's cabin?
Stowe
What did they deal with?
slavery
Directly or indirectly?
directly
What book did he write?
Huckleberry Finn
Is it his most popular book?
unknown
Which character has the book been attacked because of?
Jim
What is he?
an escaped slave
Do the attacks miss the point?
yes
What did J. Chadwick point out?
jim was a first in American fiction
What is twain's mystery novel?
Pudd'nhead Wilson
What did it center around?
babies switched at birth
Was Twain's racial tone perfect?
np
What did Lincoln believe?
blacks were inferior to whites
Where was Twain raised?
a slave state
Was he a soldier?
yes