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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why had Jimmy Rose often been chosen to present awards?
(a) He spoke well.
(b) He was a generous donor.
(c) He was handsome.
(d) He was famous.

2. What sentence was chalked below the figurehead?
(a) "Follow your leader."
(b) "Follow orders."
(c) "Never follow."
(d) "Follow your faith."

3. What is the attitude of the bachelors in the Temple toward pain and trouble?
(a) Pain and trouble are nonexistent.
(b) Pain and trouble are everywhere.
(c) Pain and trouble are unavoidable.
(d) Pain and trouble are for other people.

4. How was John Marr wounded?
(a) Whaling.
(b) Fighting in the War of 1812.
(c) Fighting with pirates.
(d) Falling from a ship's rigging.

5. How does Melville describe Captain Delano's personality?
(a) Trusting and benevolent.
(b) Pessimistic and unhappy.
(c) Mistrustful and suspicious.
(d) Autocratic and dictatorial.

6. What does the narrator in "The Fiddler" aspire to become?
(a) Rich.
(b) Happy.
(c) Famous.
(d) Brilliant.

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

8. What rumor pursues Daniel Orme into his life on shore?
(a) He was a war hero.
(b) He was a buccaneer.
(c) He was Frenchman.
(d) He was a thief.

9. What impresses the narrator about the mill?
(a) The clean air and water.
(b) The gigantic press machine.
(c) The efficiency of the operation.
(d) The cheerfulness of the workers.

10. Why is Captain Delano glad he was not astute enough to recognize the mutiny?
(a) He would not have known what to do.
(b) He would have lost faith in mankind.
(c) He would have been killed without helping Benito Cereno.
(d) He would have sacrificed his own crew.

11. What is unusual about the strange ship's figurehead?
(a) It is covered in canvas wrapping.
(b) It is beautifully carved.
(c) It is a plain, unmarked beak.
(d) It is obviously from Castile.

12. Why had Jimmy Rose never married?
(a) He ws unattractive.
(b) He loved all women equally.
(c) He was too shy.
(d) He didn't like women.

13. What first attracts the narrator of "The Piazza" to a building far in the mountains?
(a) A river runs through it.
(b) It's exactly ninety degrees ahead of his piazza.
(c) A rainbow ends there.
(d) The windows shine like gold.

14. Why is the strange ship low on provisions?
(a) They have been lost.
(b) They have been becalmed.
(c) They have been under supplied.
(d) They have taken on additional passengers.

15. What surprises Captain Delano when he first sees Benito Cereno's ship?
(a) The ship is bound for an uninhabited island.
(b) The ship is in ill repair.
(c) The ship doesn't fly the flag of any nation.
(d) The ship is giving a distress signal.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what did Captain Delano attribute Benito Cereno's ineffectiveness as captain?

2. What effect does the Marquis de Grandvin have on those around him?

3. What had Hautboy lost in order to succeed?

4. What habit of the bachelors in the Temple does the narrator wish to introduce in his own country?

5. Who finally persuaded the narrator of "I and My Chimney" to knock a few feet off the chimney?

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