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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12 - Benito Cereno.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Blandmour believe God does for the poor?
(a) God charges the rich to care for the poor.
(b) God gives the poor everything they need for free.
(c) God gives the poor very little help.
(d) God gives the poor the challenges they need.

2. What did the failure of his invention do for the uncle in "The Happy Failure?"
(a) Made him furious.
(b) Made him disappointed.
(c) Made him a good man.
(d) Made him more determined.

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

4. What does Bartleby's demeanor show about his eccentricities?
(a) They are important.
(b) They are involuntary.
(c) They are unimportant.
(d) They are voluntary.

5. What does the arrangement of the office allow Bartleby to do with the narrator?
(a) Both see and hear him.
(b) Hear him but not see him.
(c) See him but not hear him.
(d) Neither see him nor hear him.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what weapon does Radney threaten Steelkilt?

2. What do Steelkilt and his men demand in return for obeying orders?

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

4. Of what does the onstage action in the London theater remind the narrator?

5. What emotion does the narrator of "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo?" say he has never felt since the rooster died?

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