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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22 - Billy Budd.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What sort of feet did the apple-tree table have?
(a) Marble balls.
(b) Hooves like Satan.
(c) Brass fittings.
(d) Carved mahogany.

3. How much does the uncle in "The Happy Failure" think his invention is worth?
(a) More than his house.
(b) More than silver.
(c) More than gold.
(d) More than a life's work.

4. Who lives in the cottage that the narrator of "The Piazza" finds in the mountains?
(a) An orphaned brother and sister.
(b) No one.
(c) A newlywed husband and wife.
(d) A lonely widow.

5. How do the bachelors in the Temple keep time?
(a) By their reminiscences.
(b) By the wine they drank.
(c) By the jokes they told.
(d) By the courses of the meal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are Pedro and Sebastian in The Town-Ho's Story?

2. How long has the uncle in "The Happy Failure" worked on his invention?

3. What term does Melville say any observer would use to describe Billy Budd?

4. What were Billy Budd's last words?

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

(see the answer key)

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