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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 do the Peruvian listeners force the storyteller to do to prove his story is true?
(a) Show some evidence.
(b) Produce another witness.
(c) Swear on the Bible.
(d) Cross his heart.

2. What do Steelkilt's three remaining conspirators decide to do to save themselves?
(a) Sneak back to their posts.
(b) Bind Steelkilt and give him to the captain.
(c) Support Steelkilt's mutiny.
(d) Kill Steelkilt.

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

4. How does the narrator of "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo?" view the world?
(a) Full of dangers, snares, and delusions.
(b) Full of puzzles, traps, and confusion.
(c) Full of sunshine, flowers, and rainbows.
(d) Full of casualties, despotism, and knocks on the head.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose job is it to normally sweep the deck of a ship?

2. What action does Steelkilt determine to take after being locked in the hold?

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

4. What age is the narrator of Bartleby?

5. What does the narrator say a man does when confronted with an unreasonable situation?

(see the answer key)

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