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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 was the message of the church meeting the narrator observed?
(a) "Repent and be saved."
(b) "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's."
(c) "Ye are the salt of the earth."
(d) "Hide not your light under a bushel."

2. 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 men on watch.
(d) The lowest seaman.

3. What does the narrator in "The Paradise of Bachelors" say has become of the Knights Templar?
(a) They've become doctors.
(b) They've become warriors.
(c) They've become lawyers.
(d) They've become schoolteachers.

4. What impresses the narrator about the mill?
(a) The efficiency of the operation.
(b) The cheerfulness of the workers.
(c) The gigantic press machine.
(d) The clean air and water.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What animal does Melville claim is not at home at sea, on land, or in the air?

3. What does the narrator of "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo?" believe the rooster's crow is saying?

4. What does the narrator's middle-aged employee offer to do for Bartleby?

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

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