Which of the Following Best Describes Jim Smiley?

1. The tone of Mark Twain’s “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” can best be described as ______.
2. humorous
3. pleasant
4. bitter
5. desperate
6. Which of the following best describes Jim Smiley?
7. bored and annoyed
8. suspicious and aggressive
9. clever and competitive
10. gentle and tranquil
11. The reader is led to believe that Andrew Jackson, the fighting dog, lost his last fight because of ______.
12. his own stupidity
13. the other dog’s superior strength
14. a thrown sponge
15. a broken spirit after being tricked
16. When Twain writes that “[Smiley’s dog would grab the other dog . . . and hang on till they throwed up the sponge,” the phrase “throwed up the sponge” probably means that the people watching the dog fight ______.
17. admit that they lost the bet
18. bet more money on Smiley’s dog
19. grab Smiley’s dog and tie it up
20. try to help the other dog beat Smiley’s dog
21. Why did Smiley act indifferent when the stranger asked him about Dan’l Webster?
22. Smiley was hoping to convince the stranger to bet on how well Dan’l could jump.
23. Smiley was busy trying to teach Dan’l to jump when the stranger interrupted
24. Dan’l looked like he had something wrong with him, and Smiley was worried.
25. Simon Wheeler had cheated on a bet, and Smiley was angry.
26. When Jim Smiley brought Dan’l Webster downtown and “lay for a bet,” Twain means that Jim Smiley would ______.
27. talk for a while
28. lie down and sleep
29. put money on the frog’s jumping skills
30. wait for someone to make a bet with him
31. One aspect of “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” that makes the story humorous is the fact that ______.
32. Simon Wheeler does not recognize how ridiculous his tale is
33. the narrator believes everything that Simon Wheeler tells him
34. Smiley refuses to believe that the frog-jumping contest was fair
35. The stranger thinks that he can actually fool Smiley
36. According to Jim Smiley, a frog can become a great jumper if it is ______.
37. well fed
38. educated
39. shown affection
40. pampered
41. The example that best shows Smiley’s addiction to gambling with disregard for anything else is the bet he places on ______.
42. Dan’l Webster, the frog
43. Andrew Jackson, the dog
44. the mare
45. Parson Walker’s wife
46. The stranger got the best of Jim Smiley by ______.
47. stepping on Dan’l Webster
48. feeding Dan’l Webster a load of flies
49. filling Dan’l Webster with lead
50. pretending that his frog was sick
51. Why was Smiley so eager to catch up with the stranger?
52. The stranger tricked him out of his money.
53. Smiley owed him money.
54. The stranger left town with Dan’l Webster.
55. Smiley wanted a rematch.
56. Dan’l Webster “was planted as solid as a church” is an example of ______.
57. exaggeration
58. irony
59. personification
60. simile
61. Andrew Jackson would take a severe beating at the start of each fight so that ______.
62. Smiley would become upset
63. the fight would be stopped
64. more money would be bet for him to win
65. Smiley could increase the bets against him.
66. The first narrator suspects that ______.
67. Simon Wheeler’s memory is not very good
68. his friend back East had set him up
69. Leonidas W. Smiley has moved on to another town
70. Jim Smiley has moved on to another country
71. The climax in the plot of the story about Smiley’s frog occurs when ______.
72. Andrew Jackson loses a fight
73. Smiley boasts about his frog’s abilities
74. Smiley discovers the quail shot
75. Wheeler mentions the one-eyed cow
76. In “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” who tells the story about Jim Smiley and his frog?
77. Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley
78. the unnamed narrator
79. Henry Adams
80. Simon Wheeler
81. Jim Baker

1. What happens in the frame story of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”?
2. The narrator arrives at the Angel’s Camp Hotel. Because his friend has asked him to, the narrator asks Simon Wheeler about Leonidas W. Smiley. Simon then tells him what he remembers of Leonidas W. Smiley.
3. Jim Smiley, a man who liked to bet on everything, trained a frog to jump high and found a man to bet against him. The man won the bet because he cheated.
4. The narrator arrives at the Angel’s Camp Hotel. Because his friend has asked him to, the narrator asks Simon Wheeler about Leonidas W. Smiley. Simon then begins talking about Jim Smiley.
5. Leonidas W. Smiley encounters Jim Smiley, and the two men argue about whose frog can jump the highest. Jim Smiley eventually wins because he cheats.

1. What was the narrator’s attitude toward Simon Wheeler?
2. He thought he was boring.
3. He did not understand the purpose of his story.
4. He could not understand his dialect.
5. He enjoyed his sense of humor.
6. Both (A) and (B)

1. Why did people generally bet against Jim Smiley’s animals?
2. They hardly ever won the competitions they entered.
3. They were sickly looking and did not appear as if they would be any good at fighting or racing.
4. The animals did not have any hind legs.
5. People generally did bet on his animals.
6. Both (A) and (B)

1. How did Jim Smiley’s bulldog win him money?
2. Even though it appeared fierce, it gave up at the end of every fight. Jim would always bet against it, and other people bet on it.
3. Jim bet on his dog because he knew it would win. His dog’s trick was that it would always attack the hind legs of whatever dog it was fighting at the very beginning of the fight. The other dog would then not be able to stand up for the rest of the fight.
4. The dog always gave up for the first part of the fight, letting the other dog win. People would double their bets against it, and Jim would bet even more money that his dog would win. When all hope appeared lost, his dog would grab onto the other dog’s hind legs until it gave up.
5. His dog was pitiful looking, but it always fought fiercely and won every fight it ever entered by a landslide. People would bet against it, but Jim knew his dog was fiercer than it looked.

1. How did Jim Smiley’s dog finally lose a fight?
2. He was matched up against the fiercest fighting dog in all of Calaveras County.
3. He was matched up against a dog with no hind legs.
4. He got sick, and Jim made him fight anyway.
5. His hind legs got chopped off in an accident, but Jim Smiley still entered him in a fight.

1. What was the name of Jim Smiley’s frog?
2. Daniel Webster
3. Andrew Jackson
4. Gunpowder
5. Simon Wheeler

1. What did he train the frog to do?
2. jump high in the air
3. run fast
4. jump far—from one rock to another
5. make noises that sounded like “The Star Spangled Banner”

1. How did the stranger beat Jim Smiley in the bet?
2. Jim tried to double his money by betting that his frog would still win even with a spoonful of quail shot in his belly.
3. He drugged Jim’s frog so that he fell asleep when the competition started.
4. He put a spoonful of quail shot in the frog’s mouth when Jim was not looking.
5. He had actually trained his frog to jump high too, and he had spent more time doing so.

1. What was the setting of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”?
2. right outside of San Francisco, California in a gold mine
3. Hannibal, Missouri—a small riverboat town outside of St. Louis
4. Angel’s Camp, a large city in Northern Missouri
5. Angel’s Camp, a mining camp in rural California

Multiple Choice:
26. The story begins with the narrator asking for information from who?
a) Josh Farley
b) Daniel Leonidas
c) Simon Wheeler
d) Emily Tolliver
27. What do we soon find out that Jim Smiley has a problem. What is it ?
a) alcoholic
b) betting
c) eating disorder
d) liar
28. What was his bull-pup's name?
a) Lilly Laporte
b) Patrick Ray
c) Kaylee Lou
d) Andrew Jackson
29. How much was the bet?
a) 100$
b) 40$
c) 50$
d) 75$
30. What made Smiley's frog not win?
a) Quail shot
b) broken leg
c) died
d) couldn't find the frog
Vocabulary!
Circle the correct answer
31. Sally thinks that Josh is very (Garrulous/straddle bug)
32. Sally just (interminable/ conjectured) the outcome of the basketball game.
33. Today, biology was ( interminable/ bullyrag).
34. Joey would (bullyrag/flume) James if he didn’t bring him money.
35. The ( tag end/ flume) was on page 678 of the book.
36. The speech was (transcendent/monotonous).
37. They used a (bully rag/ flume) to power the boat house.
38. The little girl who won the pageant felt (transcendent/monotonous) to the other girls.
39. The old man was (ornery/flume)when he saw kids on his lawn.
Short Answer!
40. What is Smiley's frogs name?
41. Whats the name of another animal that Smiley had bet on?
Essays! Choose one of the following questions to answer and complete a solid paragraph to answer the question. Answer the essay question on the back of this test.
1.Is Jim Smiley's gambling method fair or unfair to his opponents?
2. Summarize the story that Simon Wheeler told the narrator.