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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 do Steelkilt's three remaining conspirators decide to do to save themselves?
(a) Bind Steelkilt and give him to the captain.
(b) Kill Steelkilt.
(c) Support Steelkilt's mutiny.
(d) Sneak back to their posts.

2. What part of the United States does the narrator of the Town-Ho's story claim is much like the sea?
(a) The Erie Canal.
(b) The Mississippi.
(c) The Great Lakes region.
(d) Lake Tahoe.

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

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

5. What are the two failings the narrator sees in his middle-aged scrivener?
(a) Dishonesty and ambition.
(b) Ambition and indigestion.
(c) A bad temper and gambling.
(d) Indigestion and messiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do both the captain and Steelkilt go after they separate?

2. How does Steelkilt respond to Radney's request that he sweep the deck?

3. What makes Moby Dick an unusual whale?

4. What does a scrivener do?

5. What is the first thing Bartleby says he would prefer not to do?

(see the answer key)

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