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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 - 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What surprises the narrator when he goes to his office on a Sunday?
(a) Bartleby has been working on the weekend.
(b) Bartleby has been living there.
(c) Bartleby has invited friends to the office.
(d) Bartleby has stolen his things.

2. How does the narrator of "The Two Temples" attend the meeting at the church?
(a) He hides in the bell tower.
(b) He disguises himself as the bell ringer.
(c) He bribes the man who guards the door.
(d) He sneaks into the foyer.

3. What does the narrator of "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo?" believe the rooster's crow is saying?
(a) Hark!
(b) Hello!
(c) Glory be to God in the highest!
(d) Beware!

4. What makes Moby Dick an unusual whale?
(a) He is intelligent and communicates with people.
(b) He is unusually small, white, and intelligent.
(c) He is unusually large, white, and vengeful.
(d) He has supernatural powers.

5. What does the narrator in "The Fiddler" do with his manuscripts?
(a) Pays to have them printed.
(b) Tears them up.
(c) Sends them to publishers.
(d) Reads them to strangers.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what weapon does Radney threaten Steelkilt?

2. What do the Peruvian listeners force the storyteller to do to prove his story is true?

3. What caused the bell-ringing automaton to kill Bannadonna?

4. What do Steelkilt's three remaining conspirators decide to do to save themselves?

5. Why is it hard to see the mill when coming upon it?

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