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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. What does the crew decide to do after Steelkilt is flogged?
(a) Desert together.
(b) Murder Radney.
(c) Obey the captain.
(d) Start a mutiny.

2. What is the first thing Bartleby says he would prefer not to do?
(a) Originate a copy.
(b) Compare a copy with its original.
(c) Copy a comparison of an original.
(d) Go for coffee.

3. What prevents Steelkilt from taking revenge on Radney?
(a) Radney apologizes.
(b) Steelkilt has a change of heart.
(c) The captain orders Radney executed.
(d) Moby Dick kills Radney.

4. What does Steelkilt threaten to do if he is flogged by the captain?
(a) Seek an unnamed revenge.
(b) Murder the captain.
(c) Tell the admiralty board of review.
(d) Jump overboard.

5. Why does the Town-Ho's captain have to put the ship into port?
(a) There has been a mutiny on board.
(b) Its crewmen are ill with scurvy.
(c) It has sprung a leak.
(d) It has run out of supplies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Peruvian listeners force the storyteller to do to prove his story is true?

2. What do the other employees think of Bartleby's refusals?

3. Why doesn't the narrator dismiss Bartleby for insubordination?

4. With what weapon does Radney threaten Steelkilt?

5. What surprises the narrator when he goes to his office on a Sunday?

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