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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the attitude of the bachelors in the Temple toward pain and trouble?
(a) Pain and trouble are unavoidable.
(b) Pain and trouble are everywhere.
(c) Pain and trouble are for other people.
(d) Pain and trouble are nonexistent.

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

3. Who is Atufal?
(a) A complaining woman among the slaves.
(b) A chained slave.
(c) A leader of the slaves.
(d) Babo's best friend.

4. What does the narrator in "The Fiddler" aspire to become?
(a) Happy.
(b) Rich.
(c) Brilliant.
(d) Famous.

5. Why had Jimmy Rose often been chosen to present awards?
(a) He was handsome.
(b) He was a generous donor.
(c) He was famous.
(d) He spoke well.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator of "Jimmy Rose" refuse to change the wallpaper in his parlor?

2. Who wrote the book lying on the apple-tree table?

3. What does the narrator in "The Paradise of Bachelors" say has become of the Knights Templar?

4. What contributes to the narrator's thoughts about the apple-tree table being supernatural?

5. What does Benito Cereno say has happened to his partner, Alexandro Aranda?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator of "The Fiddler" first admire about Hautboy?

2. How have the Knights Templar changed, according to Melville's observations, in "The Paradise of Bachelors"?

3. What seems odd about Benito Cereno's ship when Captain Delano first sees it?

4. What does the bug in the apple-tree table teach the narrator's daughter, Julia?

5. What does the narrator of "The Piazza" think when he first sees a single bright spot in the northwestern hills?

6. What does the landscape painter, B. Hobbema Brown, believe about the Marquis de Grandvin?

7. What is unusual about the bug that emerges from the apple-tree table in the story of that name?

8. Why does the narrator of "I and My Chimney" believe his chimney is good for invalids?

9. Why does the owner of the paper factory in "The Tartarus of Maids" tell the narrator that all of his workers are called "girls"?

10. Why doesn't the narrator in "The Piazza" grant Marianna's wish and tell her that he is the resident of the house that she believes contains happiness?

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