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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 - 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unusual about the pork at the Coulters' dinner table?
(a) It is only fat and gristle.
(b) It is last year's.
(c) It is not really pork.
(d) It is only hides.

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

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

4. How does Merrymusk convince the narrator that he is a rich man?
(a) He has a large family.
(b) He has a barn full of hay.
(c) He has a large tract of land.
(d) He has a rooster worth five hundred dollars.

5. What previous employment had shaped Bartleby?
(a) Working as a court reporter.
(b) Working in a morgue.
(c) Working in a dead letter office.
(d) Working on a locomotive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are Pedro and Sebastian in The Town-Ho's Story?

2. What did buccaneers leave on the islands that Melville claims is proof of their better traits?

3. What has Hautboy accomplished in "The Fiddler?"

4. What was the message of the church meeting the narrator observed?

5. What does the narrator of "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo?" believe the rooster's crow is saying?

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