GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Mark Twain’s real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Before Clemens became well known as a writer, he held a variety of odd jobs including piloting a steamboat up and down the Mississippi River.

Detailed explanation-2: -The correct answers for the given blanks are as follows:-Mark twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (a) who was one of (b) the greatest fiction writers of America. He grew up in a small town (C) on the banks of the Mississippi River.

Detailed explanation-3: -Why is Samuel Langhorne Clemens known as Mark Twain? He adopted the pen name in early 1863 when he was a newspaperman in Nevada. It referred to his steamboating days, when the measure of the depth of the water was expressed with a crewman’s cry “mark twain!, ‘’ meaning two fathoms, or 12 feet.

Detailed explanation-4: -Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 to 1910), known by pen name Mark Twain.