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

2. Why is the narrator not pleased with Bartleby's industriousness?
(a) Bartleby is frighteningly mechanical.
(b) Bartleby is not cheerful.
(c) Bartleby is relentlessly cheerful.
(d) Bartleby is only occasionally industrious.

3. What did a strange boy give the narrator in the theater?
(a) A cup of ale.
(b) An unexpected smile.
(c) A cup of coffee.
(d) A cake of barley.

4. What mythical character does the narrator say would have failed at his task if the chimney had then been in existence?
(a) Hercules.
(b) Atlas.
(c) Icharus.
(d) Prometheus.

5. Who is Atufal?
(a) A complaining woman among the slaves.
(b) A leader of the slaves.
(c) Babo's best friend.
(d) A chained slave.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator get into the London theater presentation?

2. What is the first thing Bartleby says he would prefer not to do?

3. What loss of John Gentian's is noticed most on May thirtieth?

4. Why had Jimmy Rose never married?

5. Of what does the onstage action in the London theater remind the narrator?

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