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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 - 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What impresses the narrator about the mill?
(a) The efficiency of the operation.
(b) The cheerfulness of the workers.
(c) The gigantic press machine.
(d) The clean air and water.

2. What does the narrator in "The Paradise of Bachelors" say has become of the Knights Templar?
(a) They've become warriors.
(b) They've become schoolteachers.
(c) They've become lawyers.
(d) They've become doctors.

3. What caused the loss of Jimmy Rose's fortune?
(a) His overly generous dealings.
(b) Duplicitous dealings.
(c) Shipwrecks.
(d) The stock market crash.

4. Why had Jimmy Rose never married?
(a) He loved all women equally.
(b) He was too shy.
(c) He ws unattractive.
(d) He didn't like women.

5. How does the narrator of "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo?" view locomotives and steamships?
(a) As instruments of destruction.
(b) As uniters of families.
(c) As harbingers of a bright future.
(d) As symbols of human ingenuity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What habit of the bachelors in the Temple does the narrator wish to introduce in his own country?

2. Who wrote the book lying on the apple-tree table?

3. Why does the narrator of "I and My Chimney" decide never to leave home?

4. What does the narrator's wife think of his apprehension about the apple-tree table?

5. What animal does Melville claim is not at home at sea, on land, or in the air?

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