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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 nicknames does the narrator of Bartleby give his employees?
(a) Chicken, Rooster, and Cluck.
(b) Turkey, Nippers, and Ginger Nut.
(c) Grandpa, Grumpy, and The Kid.
(d) Chompers, Grumpy, and Short Stuff.

2. With what alliteration does Melville describe the islands?
(a) Dark, doleful doomsday.
(b) Fruitful festival of fecundity.
(c) Extensive elegant exotica.
(d) An archipelago of aridities.

3. Why does the Town-Ho's captain have to put the ship into port?
(a) It has sprung a leak.
(b) Its crewmen are ill with scurvy.
(c) It has run out of supplies.
(d) There has been a mutiny on board.

4. What indicates to Captain Delano that the strange ship may be in trouble?
(a) The ship is giving a distress signal.
(b) The ship is bound for an uninhabited island.
(c) The ship flies no flag.
(d) The ship seems uncertain of its direction.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of the United States does the narrator of the Town-Ho's story claim is much like the sea?

2. Why does the narrator of "I and My Chimney" decide never to leave home?

3. What does Benito Cereno say has happened to his partner, Alexandro Aranda?

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

5. What previous employment had shaped Bartleby?

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