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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17 - 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What previous employment had shaped Bartleby?
(a) Working as a court reporter.
(b) Working in a morgue.
(c) Working on a locomotive.
(d) Working in a dead letter office.

3. Why does the narrator of "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo?" call the rooster Signor Beneventano?
(a) The rooster reminds him of a character in a book.
(b) The rooster reminds him of his neighbor.
(c) The rooster reminds him of a character in a play.
(d) The rooster reminds him of a song.

4. Why does John Gentian take "liberties with etiquette"?
(a) He is concerned with larger issues.
(b) He is straightforward and impulsive.
(c) He is rude and thoughtless.
(d) He is unlearned.

5. Why does the captain fear to shoot Steelkilt for his insubordination?
(a) It would justify Radney's dishonorable actions.
(b) It would be unfair.
(c) It would spark a mutiny.
(d) It would lead to a admiralty investigation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the attitude of the bachelors in the Temple toward pain and trouble?

2. What does the narrator decide to give the apple-tree table when he first discovers it?

3. Who is Atufal?

4. How does Bartleby respond to the other employees?

5. Why does Radney dislike Steelkilt?

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