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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12 - Benito Cereno.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bartleby's demeanor show about his eccentricities?
(a) They are voluntary.
(b) They are important.
(c) They are unimportant.
(d) They are involuntary.

2. What does Benito Cereno say has happened to his partner, Alexandro Aranda?
(a) He fell overboard.
(b) He left the ship at the last port.
(c) He was murdered.
(d) He died of fever.

3. What did the American ship, the Essex, see in the Encantadas?
(a) A pirate ship.
(b) A ghost ship.
(c) An enchanted ship.
(d) An English ship.

4. How does the narrator of "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo?" view the world?
(a) Full of sunshine, flowers, and rainbows.
(b) Full of puzzles, traps, and confusion.
(c) Full of casualties, despotism, and knocks on the head.
(d) Full of dangers, snares, and delusions.

5. What surprises the narrator of "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo?" about the owner of the rooster?
(a) He is poor.
(b) He is old.
(c) He has many such roosters.
(d) He has a large family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has the uncle in "The Happy Failure" invented?

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

3. What does the narrator in "The Fiddler" aspire to become?

4. What does the narrator in "The Paradise of Bachelors" say has become of the Knights Templar?

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

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