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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 - Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator describe life on the sea as compared to farming or working the Erie Canal?
(a) Sea life is "daring and brave."
(b) Sea life is "quietly Christian."
(c) Sea life is "reckless and barbaric."
(d) Sea life is "calm and pure."

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

3. Why doesn't the narrator dismiss Bartleby for insubordination?
(a) Bartleby promises to improve.
(b) Bartleby is obviously emotionally upset.
(c) Bartleby is distressed.
(d) Bartleby is calm, showing no emotion.

4. What famous person expressed a good opinion of the narrator of Bartleby?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) Andrew Carnegie.
(c) John D. Rockefeller.
(d) John Jacob Astor.

5. Why does the Town-Ho's captain have to put the ship into port?
(a) Its crewmen are ill with scurvy.
(b) It has sprung a leak.
(c) There has been a mutiny on board.
(d) It has run out of supplies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What good qualities does Bartleby have as an employee?

2. What is the main task of the narrator's youngest employee in Bartleby?

3. What previous employment had shaped Bartleby?

4. What does Steelkilt threaten to do if he is flogged by the captain?

5. Why does the captain decide not to flog Steelkilt?

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