The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by: Mark Twain

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When was Mark Twain born?

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Twain’s fictional town of St. Petersburg was based on what real Missouri town?

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Mark Twain’s pen name is a pun based on the terminology used in ___.

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer lacks the ___ that was found in Twain’s earlier work.

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Because it avoids explicit criticism of racism, the novel largely escaped the controversy that surrounded which book?

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