Question

What does Mark Twain satirize in this excerpt from "The £1,000,000 Bank-Note"?

It was a lovely dinner-party of fourteen. The Duke and Duchess of Shoreditch, and their daughter the Lady Anne-Grace-Eleanor-Celeste-and-so-forth-and-so-forth-de-Bohun, the Earl and Countess of Newgate, Viscount Cheapside, Lord and Lady Blatherskite, some untitled people of both sexes, the minister and his wife and daughter, and his daughter's visiting friend, an English girl of twenty-two, named Portia Langham, whom I fell in love with in two minutes, and she with me—I could see it without glasses. There was still another guest, an American—but I am a little ahead of my story.

A: the long list of names required to address certain nobles
B: the English custom of holding frequent balls and dinner parties
C: the lack of importance given to Americans by the English
D: the eccentric attitudes of the British upper class

Answer 1

Mark Twain satirize in this excerpt from "The £1,000,000 Bank-Not which are the long list of names required to address certain nobles. SO the answer to your question would be letter A. This excerpt talks about the people who are responsible to the act.

Answer 2

Answer: The right answer is the A) the long list of names required to address certain nobles.

Explanation: Just to elaborate a little on the answer, it can be added that there is no reference to the attitudes of those characters, just to their long names, so option D should be discarded. In addition, it cannot be inferred that Americans were not given importance by the British, so option C can also be discarded. Furthermore, it cannot be inferred that the English had a custom of holding frequent dinner parties and balls, since the author only refers to one in particular, so option B can also be ruled out. Therefore, only option A is valid. The author is satirizing, or ridiculing, the long list of names that were required to address certain nobles—such as "Lady Anne-Grace-Eleanor-Celeste-and-so-forth-and-so-forth-de-Bohun."