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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. Why is the narrator not pleased with Bartleby's industriousness?
(a) Bartleby is not cheerful.
(b) Bartleby is frighteningly mechanical.
(c) Bartleby is relentlessly cheerful.
(d) Bartleby is only occasionally industrious.

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

3. How does Melville describe pelicans?
(a) Woebegone and penitential.
(b) Clever and complicated.
(c) Elegant and streamlined.
(d) Modest and humble.

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

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 surprises the narrator of "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo?" about the owner of the rooster?

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

3. What quality of Bartleby's induces the narrator to hire him?

4. What food does Bartleby appear to eat exclusively?

5. How does the narrator of "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo?" view locomotives and steamships?

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