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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 - Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bartleby respond to the other employees?
(a) He thanks them.
(b) He resents them.
(c) He emulates them.
(d) He ignores them.

2. Who are Pedro and Sebastian in The Town-Ho's Story?
(a) Sailors on the Pequod.
(b) Sailors on the Town-Ho.
(c) Writers.
(d) Friends of the narrator.

3. What famous person expressed a good opinion of the narrator of Bartleby?
(a) John D. Rockefeller.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) Andrew Carnegie.
(d) John Jacob Astor.

4. How does the narrator accommodate the weakness of his oldest scrivener?
(a) By hiring an assistant for him.
(b) By allowing him to work only half a day.
(c) By giving him unimportant papers in the morning.
(d) By giving him unimportant papers in the afternoon.

5. Whose job is it to normally sweep the deck of a ship?
(a) The men on watch.
(b) All members of the work gangs.
(c) The lowest seaman.
(d) The boys on board.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a scrivener do?

2. How does the narrator describe life on the sea as compared to farming or working the Erie Canal?

3. What do Steelkilt's three remaining conspirators decide to do to save themselves?

4. What is the profession of the narrator of Bartleby?

5. What does the crew decide to do after Steelkilt is flogged?

(see the answer key)

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