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

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

3. What object does the lookout spot that takes Melville's ship to Norfolk Isle?
(a) A handkerchief.
(b) A white bird.
(c) A burning fire.
(d) An American flag.

4. How does the narrator of "The Piazza" travel to the spot in the mountains that he wants to see?
(a) In a yawl.
(b) On foot.
(c) In a carriage.
(d) On horseback.

5. In which of Melville's novels is "The Town-Ho's Story" included?
(a) Mardi.
(b) Billy Budd.
(c) Moby Dick.
(d) The Confidence Man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's wife think of his apprehension about the apple-tree table?

2. How does the lightning rod salesman feel about thunderstorms?

3. Why is Captain Delano glad he was not astute enough to recognize the mutiny?

4. To what did Captain Delano attribute Benito Cereno's ineffectiveness as captain?

5. What makes Moby Dick an unusual whale?

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