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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 - 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the narrator's condition when he goes to the theater in London?
(a) He is well-fed and relaxed.
(b) He is bored and overfed.
(c) He is broke and alone.
(d) He is comfortable and among friends.

3. What does Melville call the government the Creole soldier established on St. Charles?
(a) A democracy.
(b) A monarchy.
(c) A theocracy.
(d) A riotocracy.

4. Of what does the onstage action in the London theater remind the narrator?
(a) The church service he had watched from the bell tower.
(b) The theater at home on Broadway.
(c) His own childhood.
(d) The curmudgeonly landlady at his boarding house.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what sight in the city does Melville compare the islands of the Encantadas?

2. What does Melville say is the most populous species on the island of Albermarle?

3. Why does the captain fear to shoot Steelkilt for his insubordination?

4. What does a scrivener do?

5. What did a strange boy give the narrator in the theater?

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