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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What food does Bartleby appear to eat exclusively?
(a) Chestnuts.
(b) Pine nuts.
(c) Porridge.
(d) Ginger nuts.

2. 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.

3. What animal does Melville claim is not at home at sea, on land, or in the air?
(a) The bat.
(b) The cormorant.
(c) The walrus.
(d) The penguin.

4. What are the two failings the narrator sees in his middle-aged scrivener?
(a) Ambition and indigestion.
(b) Dishonesty and ambition.
(c) Indigestion and messiness.
(d) A bad temper and gambling.

5. What prevents Steelkilt from taking revenge on Radney?
(a) Radney apologizes.
(b) Steelkilt has a change of heart.
(c) The captain orders Radney executed.
(d) Moby Dick kills Radney.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does the narrator of "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo?" call the rooster Signor Beneventano?

3. What does a scrivener do?

4. What happens to the rooster when the Merrymusk family dies?

5. How does the narrator of "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo?" view the world?

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