Question

What job did Mark Twain hold as a young man?

A.
He was a police officer.

B.
He was a professional singer.

C.
He was a steamboat pilot.

D.
He was a cotton farmer.
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Answer 1

After an apprenticeship with a printer, he worked as a typesetter for his older brother, Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot.

Answer 2

"Mark Twain" (meaning "Mark number two") was a Mississippi River term: the second mark on the line that measured depth signified two fathoms. This is the name Samuel Clemons took as an alias for his writings. So it is wise to assume he knew a lot about being a riverboat captain.

Answer 3

D

Answer 4

Twain describes in Life on the Mississippi how, when he was a boy, "there was but one permanent ambition" among his comrades: to be a steamboatman.
Twain studied the Mississippi, learning its landmarks, how to navigate its currents effectively, and how to "read the river" and its constantly shifting channels, reefs, submerged snags and rocks that would "tear the life out of the strongest vessel that ever floated". It was more than two years before he received his pilot's license

Answer 5

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Answer 6

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Answer 7

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Answer 8

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Answer 9

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