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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator describe life on the sea as compared to farming or working the Erie Canal?
(a) Sea life is "daring and brave."
(b) Sea life is "quietly Christian."
(c) Sea life is "calm and pure."
(d) Sea life is "reckless and barbaric."

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

3. With what alliteration does Melville describe the islands?
(a) Dark, doleful doomsday.
(b) Fruitful festival of fecundity.
(c) An archipelago of aridities.
(d) Extensive elegant exotica.

4. What has the uncle in "The Happy Failure" invented?
(a) A device for diverting rivers.
(b) A device for purifying water.
(c) A device for draining swamps.
(d) A device for building dams.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the attitude of the bachelors in the Temple toward pain and trouble?

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

3. Why does the narrator of "Jimmy Rose" refuse to change the wallpaper in his parlor?

4. How does Melville describe Captain Delano's personality?

5. Why had Jimmy Rose never married?

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