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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17 - 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the two failings the narrator sees in his middle-aged scrivener?
(a) Indigestion and messiness.
(b) Ambition and indigestion.
(c) Dishonesty and ambition.
(d) A bad temper and gambling.

2. What does a scrivener do?
(a) Researches legal precedents.
(b) Records testimony in court.
(c) Makes copies of legal documents.
(d) Organizes court records.

3. What is the first thing Bartleby says he would prefer not to do?
(a) Compare a copy with its original.
(b) Go for coffee.
(c) Originate a copy.
(d) Copy a comparison of an original.

4. In "The Piazza," how does the narrator's house look to the inhabitants of the mountain cottage?
(a) Like a palace.
(b) Like a prison.
(c) Like a happy place.
(d) Like a mansion.

5. What mythical character does the narrator say would have failed at his task if the chimney had then been in existence?
(a) Hercules.
(b) Icharus.
(c) Atlas.
(d) Prometheus.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the narrator's condition when he goes to the theater in London?

3. What does the narrator in "The Fiddler" aspire to become?

4. How does the narrator get into the London theater presentation?

5. What happens to the rooster when the Merrymusk family dies?

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