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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What office does the narrator of Bartleby hold that no longer exists?
(a) County Coroner.
(b) Master of Chancery.
(c) Justice of the Peace.
(d) Mayor.

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

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

5. What is the main task of the narrator's youngest employee in Bartleby?
(a) Errand boy.
(b) Legal research.
(c) Cook.
(d) Copying.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what sight in the city does Melville compare the islands of the Encantadas?

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

3. How does the narrator of "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo?" view the world?

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

5. What are the two failings the narrator sees in his middle-aged scrivener?

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