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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 caused the bell-ringing automaton to kill Bannadonna?
(a) A design flaw.
(b) An unrepaired defect.
(c) A manufacturing error.
(d) Jealousy.

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

3. Who takes possession as the sole ruler of St. Charles Isle?
(a) A Creole soldier.
(b) A Peruvian king.
(c) A Bolivian pirate.
(d) A Chilean adventurer.

4. What human assumption does Melville say is the most preposterous?
(a) Criticism of the rich by the poor.
(b) Understanding of the poor by the rich.
(c) Understanding of the rich by the poor.
(d) Criticism of the poor by the rich.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what did Captain Delano attribute the ship's being so long becalmed?

2. How do the bachelors in the Temple keep time?

3. What is Poor Man's Pudding?

4. Why is the narrator not pleased with Bartleby's industriousness?

5. What do Steelkilt's three remaining conspirators decide to do to save themselves?

(see the answer key)

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