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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 happens to the rooster when the Merrymusk family dies?
(a) The rooster is sold for five hundred dollars.
(b) The rooster dies too.
(c) The rooster crows on the graves.
(d) The rooster goes home with the narrator.

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

3. Where does the narrator in The Town-Ho's story tell his tale?
(a) On the deck of the Town-Ho.
(b) On the deck of the Pequod.
(c) The Cape of Good Hope.
(d) Lima, Peru.

4. What emotion does the narrator of "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo?" say he has never felt since the rooster died?
(a) The silly slaphappiness.
(b) The cheerful joys.
(c) The doleful dumps.
(d) The warm contentment.

5. How does Melville describe pelicans?
(a) Clever and complicated.
(b) Modest and humble.
(c) Woebegone and penitential.
(d) Elegant and streamlined.

Short Answer Questions

1. What food does Bartleby appear to eat exclusively?

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

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

4. Why does the Town-Ho's captain have to put the ship into port?

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

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