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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 good qualities does Bartleby have as an employee?
(a) He is enthusiastic and energetic.
(b) He is amiable and friendly.
(c) He is eager to help.
(d) He is hard-working and honest.

2. What does the crew decide not to do after Steelkilt is flogged?
(a) Call out when whales were sighted.
(b) Desert together.
(c) Start a mutiny.
(d) Obey the captain.

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

4. What does the narrator of "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo?" believe the rooster's crow is saying?
(a) Beware!
(b) Hello!
(c) Glory be to God in the highest!
(d) Hark!

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the men who work the Erie Canal?

2. How does Merrymusk convince the narrator that he is a rich man?

3. What office does the narrator of Bartleby hold that no longer exists?

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

5. What two characteristics does Melville attribute to the islands of the Encantadas?

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