1. Not stated
2. False (He heard the riverboat workers call out the words "mark twain!"...Later he used this word combination as a pen-name.)
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4. True (...Mark Twain used the language of a common, uneducated person to tell the story; no writer had ever done that before.)
5. False (He started writing in 1876, but put the story away after about two years of work. He returned to it in 1883...)
6. True (Some critics praised its realism and honesty but the others strongly disliked it. )
7. False (In 1935 Ernest Hemingway wrote: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called 'Huckleberry Finn.')
8. True (...the novel ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ was a great inspiration for film producers – more than 20 screen versions of the book have been shot not only in America but in Europe, Russia and Japan.)