Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum Scavenger Hunt Earn points while you search for clues and information about the life and works of America’s most beloved author.
Names of Team Members: ______Page 2 Scavenger Hunt
From the Interpretive Center... 1. Orion Clemens designed 3. When young Sam Clemens’ 5. Look at the wonderful something of historical teacher, Mrs. Horr, told him to sculpture that shows many significance for Nevada. What fetch a switch so she could characters from four of Mark was it? punish him, what did he bring to Twain’s books. Name the four her? books represented: ______Score: ______/10 points ______Score: ______/10 points ______
Orion Clemens, Samuel Score: ______/40 points Clemens’ older brother 2. Judging from Samuel Clemens’ mother’s dress, how 4. What job did Sam Clemens
would you describe her size? have as a boy that made him a Small/Medium/Large/X-Large student of the “Poor Boys’ 6. Name the two characters College?” that are depicted twice in the ______sculpture: ______Score: ______/10 points ______
Score: ______/10 points Score: ______/20 points Characters... “He was not the Model 7. What was the name of 9. Was Tom Sawyer based upon 10. The character of Injun Joe Boy of the village. He Samuel Clemens’ neighbor who Mark Twain? Why or why not? was based upon whom? became the inspiration for the No/Yes, because…______knew the model boy character of Becky Thatcher? ______Score: ______/10 points well enough - and ______loathed him.” ______Score: ______/10 points ______
~Mark Twain ______(describing Tom Sawyer) 8. Upon whom was the ______character of Judge Thatcher ______based? ______11. What of Aunt Polly's was ______Tom Sawyer blamed for breaking? Score: ______/10 points ______Score: ______/20 points Score: ______/10 points
Huck’s House... 12. How many ceiling beams 14. Tom Blankenship’s older said he was “unwashed” and support the roof in the “Huck brother helped an escaped “insufficiently fed.” Finn” house? ______slave who was hiding on Sny ______Island. What was this brother’s Score: ______/10 points name? Score: ______/10 points
______Who was Samuel Clemens’ sweet- 13. How many fireplaces are in Score: ______/10 points heart? She later became “Becky Huck’s house? ______Thatcher” in The Adventures of Tom 15. Who was the “original” Sawyer. Write the answer for #7. Score: ______/10 points Huckleberry Finn? Mark Twain Scavenger Hunt Page 3
The Boyhood Home... 16. In the kitchen, there is a 17. Although there are several 18. In the back bedroom used story about slave children in the bedrooms in the house, where by young Sam Clemens, “Tom household. What were the two would the young slave boys Sawyer” is doing what? boys’ names? have slept? Why? ______Score: ______/10 points ______Score: ______/10 points ______19. In the front bedroom, there ______is a circular object draped on Did you know that Mark Twain loved cats? ______top of the bed. This was used ______to support what type of ______clothing? ______Score: ______/10 points ______Score: ______/10 points
On the mall...
20. Who was the real person 21. Sam Clemens’ father’s office is located Becky Thatcher is based on? near the Becky Thatcher House. What was “A cat is more John Marshall Clemens’s official title? intelligent than ______people believe, and Score: ______/10 points Score: ______/10 points can be taught any crime.” 22. What did Samuel Clemens find in the rear ~Mark Twain of his father's office one night? ______Score: ______/10 points
Notes:
Use this section to jot down ______notes about interesting facts ______you’d like to remember. Back in ______class we will share these with ______each other. You will receive 5 ______extra points for each interesting ______fact that NO ONE ELSE has ______listed! ______Calculate the subtotal of points earned on ______pages 2 and 3: ______Page 4 Scavenger Hunt
The Museum Gallery... 23. What object do you have to 25. In A Connecticut Yankee in 27. In his book, Roughing It, “turn on” in order to see the King Arthur’s Court, Sir Boss Mark Twain wrote about his wild “treasures” of the whitewashed introduced what American sport west days. He even got to see a fence? ______to the knights? Pony Express rider. How long did it take a letter to travel from Score: ______/10 points ______St. Joseph, Missouri to
Score: ______/10 points California by Pony Express? 24. There is a “bat” in the cave ______miles in _____ days Tom and Becky running from bats in the cave. that was used as a special 26. Visit the “Barrel of Fun Score: ______/20 points effect in a movie. What 4 items Animal Show” to listen to five were used to create this bat? stories Mark Twain wrote. Name the five animals: ______Score: ______/40 points ______Score: ______/50 points “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, 28. Mark Twain traveled abroad 29. According to researcher Dr. 30. What type of clerk did and many of our and wrote a book called The Edgar M. Branch, how many Samuel Clemens’ younger people need it sorely Innocents Abroad. While in steamboats did Samuel brother, Henry, serve as on these accounts. Paris, he observed a dance, Clemens pilot? ______onboard the steamboat named Broad, wholesome, which he described as “an the Pennsylvania? Score: ______/10 points charitable views of extraordinary jig.” What was the ______men and things name of this dance? cannot be acquired Score: ______/10 points by vegetating in one ______little corner of the Score: ______/10 points earth all one's lifetime.”
~Mark Twain
Henry Clemens
32. After you blow the steamboat whistle, read about 33. As Mark Twain grew older, a steamboat Mark Twain he swore off travel. But in described in his autobiography 1907 he traveled across the as the “slowest one on the Atlantic Ocean to receive an planet. Up-stream she couldn’t honorary doctorate from what even beat an island; down- famous institution? stream she was never able to ______31. Samuel Clemens received overtake the current.” What his pilot’s license on what day? was the name of this slow boat? Score: ______/10 points ____th of ______, 18______
Mark Twain received three honorary Score: ______/10 points Score: ______/10 points doctorate degrees in his lifetime. Scavenger Hunt Page 5
The Museum Gallery... 34. What fast food chain 35. What is the name of the 37. Mark Twain invented a self- immortalized some of Mark board game that Mark Twain pasting scrapbook in more than Twain’s characters in a set of invented? (Hint: It is a lot like 30 sizes. About how many of drinking glasses? Trivial Pursuit.) these were sold in 1877? ______Score: ______/10 points Score: ______/10 points Score: ______/10 points
36. Mark Twain created a self- 38. Mark Twain's books were portrait that was etched on what type of metal? released in what country before being released in the United ______States? ______Score: ______/10 points ______Mark Twain came up with the idea of a self-pasting scrapbook. Score: ______/10 points
39. What animal is pictured on 40. What large musical 41. Which Norman Rockwell the first edition cover of instrument is on display? painting was made into a "Following the Equator"? 8 feet high by 6 feet wide. postage stamp? The old saw says, "Let
sleeping dogs lie." Right. ______Still when there is much at ______Score: ______/10 points stake it is better to get a Score: ______/10 points Score: ______/10 points newspaper to do it.
~Mark Twain in Following the Equator
42. What animal is scaring 43. What language edition of 45. In 1908 a cast was made of Aunt Sally in "Huckleberry "Tom Sawyer" shows the boys Mark Twain’s right hand. What Finn"? wearing huge hats? type of metal was used for this cast? ______Score: ______/10 points Score: ______/10 points Score: ______/10 points
44. Jean and Clara Clemens 46. Friends inscribed a hunting autographed photos of watch to Mark Twain and gave themselves and gave them to a him an honorary title. What Swedish girl who was a house- was this title? servant. What was her name? Calculate the subtotal of points earned on pages 4 and 5: ______Score: ______/10 points Score: ______/10 points Page 6 Scavenger Hunt
The Museum Gallery...
50. A sculpture of Mark Twain 47. What did the Clemens 48. There is a beautiful jewelry shows him writing in bed. Name family have made to remind box on display in the museum the artist who created this them of their son, Langdon, gallery, which Mark Twain exhibit: who died in infancy? designed for his wife, Olivia. The jewelry box was hand- ______carved in what country? ______Score:______/20 points Score: ______/10 points Score: ______/10 points
_ Norman Rockwell’s self-portrait ______49. What relative (through ______marriage) of Mark Twain’s ______possessed “perfect pitch” as ______one of his assets? ______Score: ______/10 points
“As an example to 51. Samuel Clemens took out a 53. Mark Twain’s daughter others, and not that I life insurance policy to make a donated one of his favorite care for moderation good impression on his bride-to- pipes to the museum. Look myself, it has always be. How much was the policy closely… can you see the teeth- worth? ______marks? What was the brand been my rule never to name of this pipe? smoke when asleep Score: ______/10 points ______and never to refrain Score: ______/10 points when awake.” 52. What causes Joe Harper
and Tom Sawyer to get sick ~Mark Twain in the Rockwell paintings? 54. When you watch the film clip from Huck Finn you get to sit on a bench placed upon ______what river vehicle? Score: ______/10 points ______Score: ______/10 points
Well, you have done it! You’ve toured the museum properties, examined artifacts, interacted with displays, and perhaps learned a 55. When you watch a film clip thing or two. Even if you didn’t find all of the answers, you can still about Samuel Clemens’ earn extra points in other ways - jotting down interesting facts on experiences out in the wild Page 3, for instance, or unscrambling letters to form new words on west, you get to do so while Page 7. We think that young Sam Clemens would have enjoyed sitting in what kind of vehicle? unscrambling the letters from his own name to make new words. ______We hope you enjoyed your Scavenger Hunt! Score: ______/10 points Wait! There’s more! Page 7 Scavenger Hunt For the ride home... Samuel Langhorne Clemens: How many words can you make? Using only the letters from “Samuel Langhorne Clemens, see how many words you can make. You cannot use a letter more than once in a word, unless the letter is repeated in “Samuel Langhorne Clemens.” For instance, you could use the letter “e” 4 times since it appears 4 times. (No proper nouns.) 3-Letter Words (3 points each) 4-Letter Words (4 points each) 5-Letter Words (5 points each) ______Words that contain 9 or more ______letters (10 points each) ______6-Letter Words (6 points each) 7-Letter Words (7 points each) 8-Letter Words (8 points each) ______Calculate the subtotal of points earned on ______pages 6 and 7: ______
DOLLAR MATH: Using the values below, how much is the name Samuel Langhorne Clemens worth? $______Score: ______/10 points (How much is your name worth? $______) Each letter is worth the corresponding number in A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z cents. Can you think of any words that equal 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 exactly one dollar? We’d like to hear from you! Jot down your Top 10 List telling us what you liked best about our museum properties and artifacts. Send us a postcard or letter telling us what you liked, and we just might share your comments on our
Phone: 573-221-9010 website. Send your comments to: Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.marktwainmuseum.org
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How did you do? Compare your score below to see what kind of Mark Twain expert you are: Pages 2-3 Subtotal: ______Less than 100: A good start, but you must have been “playing Pages 4-5 Subtotal: ______hooky” at some of the exhibits. We suggest you come back again soon! Pages 6-7 Subtotal: ______100-399: Not bad! We predict you’ll answer all of the “Mark Twain” questions correctly on Jeopardy!
400-600: Impressive! You have the curiosity of Tom Sawyer. (And we think that’s a good thing!)
More than 600: Wow! Not only are you a “brainiac,” you’re also a “Twainiac!”
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For the ride home... “I have found out there ain't no surer way to Your Top 10 List: find out whether you 1. 6. like people or hate them than to travel with
them.”
~Huck Finn in 2. 7. Tom Sawyer Abroad
3. 8.
Send us a letter or email telling us what you liked. 4. 9. If we post your comments on our website, we’ll send you a thank you gift. Don’t forget to include
your address! (We will We hope you like the people you’re traveling only post your name and with and that you come see us again! 5. 10. hometown on the website, not your street address.)