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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 - 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the profession of the narrator of Bartleby?
(a) Judge.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Stockbroker.
(d) Tax accountant.

3. What do the crew members do as soon as the Town-Ho reaches port?
(a) They desert the ship.
(b) They give up life on the sea.
(c) They call for help.
(d) They murder the captain.

4. How does Steelkilt respond to Radney's request that he sweep the deck?
(a) He quietly refuses.
(b) He meekly obeys.
(c) He complains loudly.
(d) He loudly refuses.

5. What happens to the rooster when the Merrymusk family dies?
(a) The rooster is sold for five hundred dollars.
(b) The rooster goes home with the narrator.
(c) The rooster crows on the graves.
(d) The rooster dies too.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the narrator of "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo?" treat his creditor after hearing the crow?

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

4. How does the narrator accommodate the weakness of his oldest scrivener?

5. What did the American ship, the Essex, see in the Encantadas?

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