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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 country possessed the Encantadas at the time Melville wrote?
(a) Colombia.
(b) Chile.
(c) Peru.
(d) Bolivia.

2. What is the narrator's condition when he goes to the theater in London?
(a) He is comfortable and among friends.
(b) He is broke and alone.
(c) He is bored and overfed.
(d) He is well-fed and relaxed.

3. How does the narrator describe life on the sea as compared to farming or working the Erie Canal?
(a) Sea life is "calm and pure."
(b) Sea life is "reckless and barbaric."
(c) Sea life is "quietly Christian."
(d) Sea life is "daring and brave."

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

5. What god does the narrator in "The Lightning Rod Man" think the salesman resembles?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Jupiter.
(d) Poseidon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the failure of his invention do for the uncle in "The Happy Failure?"

2. Why had Jimmy Rose often been chosen to present awards?

3. What does a scrivener do?

4. What mythical character does the narrator say would have failed at his task if the chimney had then been in existence?

5. What disease does Captain Delano learn has swept off much of the crew and cargo of slaves?

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