 
 <prompt> text: ```Mark Twain don dey call di inventor of di American Novel. And e sure say e deserve additional praise: di man wey popularize di clever literary attack on racism. I talk say clever because anti-slavery fiction don dey important for literature before di Civil War. H. B. Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin na only di most famous example. Dis early stories dey deal directly with slavery. With minor exceptions, Twain plant im attacks on slavery and prejudice inside tales wey dey on di surface about something else entirely. E draw im readers into di argument by drawing dem into di story. Again and again, for di postwar years, Twain dey seem forced to deal with di challenge of race. Consider di most controversial, at least today, of Twain's novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Only a few books don dey kicked off di shelves as often as Huckleberry Finn, Twain's most widely read tale. Once upon a time, people hate di book because e strike dem as rude. Twain himself write say those wey ban di book consider di novel "trash and suitable only for di slums." More recently di book don dey attacked because of di character Jim, di escaped slave, and many occurences of di word nigger. (Di term Nigger Jim, for which di novel dey often severely criticized, never appear inside am.) But di attacks dey and dey silly--and dem miss di point. Di novel dey strongly anti-slavery. Jim's search through di slave states for di family from whom e don be forcibly parted na heroic. As J. Chadwick don point out, di character of Jim na first for American fiction--a recognition say di slave get two personalities, "the voice of survival within a white slave culture and the voice of di individual: Jim, di father and di man." There dey much more. Twain's mystery novel Pudd'nhead Wilson stand as a challenge to di racial beliefs of even many of di liberals of im day. Written for a time when di accepted wisdom hold say Negroes dey inferior to whites, especially in intelligence, Twain's tale center in part around two babies switched at birth. A slave give birth to her master's baby and, for fear say di pikin fit be sold South, switch am for di master's baby by im wife. Di slave's lightskinned pikin na taken to be white and grow up with both di attitudes and di education of di slave-holding class. Di master's wife's baby na taken for black and grow up with di attitudes and intonations of di slave. Di point dey difficult to miss: nurture, not nature, na di key to social status. Di features of di black man wey provide di stuff of prejudice--manner of speech, for example-- were, to Twain, indicative of nothing other than di conditioning wey slavery force on its victims. Twain's racial tone no perfect. One dey left uneasy, for example, by di lengthy passage for im autobiography about how much e love wetin dem dey call "nigger shows" for im youth--mostly with white men performing in black-face--and im delight in getting im mother to laugh at dem. Yet there no reason to think say Twain see di shows as representing reality. Im frequent attacks on slavery and prejudice suggest im keen awareness say _ no. Was Twain a racist? Asking di question for di 21st century na as wise as asking di same of Lincoln. If we read di words and attitudes of di past through di "wisdom" of di considered moral judgments of di present, we go find nothing but error. Lincoln, wey believe say di black man dey inferior to di white, fight and win war to free am. And Twain, raised for a slave state, briefly a soldier, and inventor of Jim, fit don do more to anger di nation over racial injustice and awaken its collective conscience pass any other novelist for di past century.

Answer this series of questions:

1. Who be di inventor of di American Novel?
2. Wetin don dey important for literature before di Civil War?
3. Who write Uncle tom's cabin?
4. Wetin dem dey deal with?
5. Directly or indirectly?
6. Wetin book e write?
7. E be im most popular book?
8. Which character di book don dey attacked because of?
9. Wetin e be?
10. Dem attacks miss di point?
11. Wetin J. Chadwick point out?
12. Wetin be Twain's mystery novel?
13. Wetin e center around?
14. Twain's racial tone perfect?
15. Wetin Lincoln believe?
16. Where Twain raise?
17. E be soldier?

Numbered answers:``` <response>: ```1. Mark Twain
2. anti-slavery fiction
3. Stowe
4. slavery
5. directly
6. Huckleberry Finn
7. unknown
8. Jim
9. an escaped slave
10. yes
11. jim was a first in American fiction
12. Pudd'nhead Wilson
13. babies switched at birth
14. np
15. blacks were inferior to whites
16. a slave state
17. yes``` 