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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 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 Great Lakes region.
(c) The Mississippi.
(d) Lake Tahoe.

2. What do Steelkilt and his men demand in return for obeying orders?
(a) They will not be punished.
(b) They will be given better wages.
(c) They will not have to sweep the decks.
(d) Radney will be punished.

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

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

5. How does Merrymusk convince the narrator that he is a rich man?
(a) He has a rooster worth five hundred dollars.
(b) He has a large tract of land.
(c) He has a barn full of hay.
(d) He has a large family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the Town-Ho's captain have to put the ship into port?

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

3. Why does the captain fear to shoot Steelkilt for his insubordination?

4. What nicknames does the narrator of Bartleby give his employees?

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

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