Kontrolltöö 7. klassile (ILE 5) Unit 12
Mississhippi. / He wrote about his experiences in his book Life on the
Mississhippi.
3 The Civil War broke out in 1861 / He travelled on the West, where he started
working as a journalist and took Mark Twain as his pen name.
4 In 1870 he got married and went to live in Hartford, Connecticut / Amond
these were The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn, which describes the adventures of a boy and black slave, Jim.
5 In the 1880s Mark Twain opened his onw publishing house but it wasn´t a
success. / However, his books were nos less humorous than his earlier works.
He was also popular as a lecturer in different parts of the world and returned to
the United States as a hero.
6 His oldest daugher died in 1896 and eigh years later he lost his wife / On 21
April 1910 Mark Twain died of heart disease.