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

2. What office does Claggart hold aboard ship?
(a) Deck master.
(b) Quartermaster.
(c) Corporal.
(d) Master-at-arms.

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

4. What happens to Billy Budd when he is under stress?
(a) He turns red.
(b) He stutters.
(c) He becomes uncontrollably angry.
(d) He sweats.

5. How does the narrator get into the London theater presentation?
(a) He pawns his overcoat to buy a ticket.
(b) He finds a ticket on the sidewalk.
(c) He sneaks in a side door.
(d) A stranger gives him a ticket.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Hautboy lost in order to succeed?

2. What is the narrator's condition when he goes to the theater in London?

3. What rumor pursues Daniel Orme into his life on shore?

4. In which of Melville's novels is "The Town-Ho's Story" included?

5. How does the narrator of "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo?" view locomotives and steamships?

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