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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17 - 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator's wife think of his apprehension about the apple-tree table?
(a) She thinks he is drunk.
(b) She thinks he is making it up.
(c) She thinks he is crazy.
(d) She thinks he is trying to frighten her.

2. Where do "'Gees" come from?
(a) Africa.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Fogo.
(d) Portugal.

3. How does Melville describe Captain Delano's personality?
(a) Pessimistic and unhappy.
(b) Trusting and benevolent.
(c) Autocratic and dictatorial.
(d) Mistrustful and suspicious.

4. Why is the narrator not pleased with Bartleby's industriousness?
(a) Bartleby is relentlessly cheerful.
(b) Bartleby is not cheerful.
(c) Bartleby is only occasionally industrious.
(d) Bartleby is frighteningly mechanical.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why had Jimmy Rose never married?

3. To what did Captain Delano attribute the ship's being so long becalmed?

4. What does Melville call the government the Creole soldier established on St. Charles?

5. Who finally persuaded the narrator of "I and My Chimney" to knock a few feet off the chimney?

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