A Pilot’s Needs wkst

Directions: Use blue or black ink. Incorporate the question as part a complete answer.

1. Mark Twain compares a pilot’s knowledge of the river to memorizing every detail of a city street. What two more factors does he say would be necessary to make the comparison really accurate?
2. How did Mr. Brown’s memory differ from the kind of memory most needed by a pilot?
3. What is Twain’s opinion of the two kinds of memory?
4. While memory was vital to a river pilot, Twain says that there are two higher qualities. What are they?
5. How was Twain taught a lesson that involved both of these qualities?
6. Mr. Bixby was a real person. Just to be exact: how long a stretch of the Missouri River did he learn, and how quickly did he learn it?