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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What country possessed the Encantadas at the time Melville wrote?
(a) Peru.
(b) Colombia.
(c) Bolivia.
(d) Chile.
2. What benefit does the narrator get from his indulgence of Bartleby's eccentricities?
(a) Self-approval.
(b) Bartleby's friendship.
(c) The approval of his employees.
(d) The approval of his peers.
3. How is the narrator punished for sneaking into the church?
(a) He is imprisoned.
(b) He is jailed overnight and fined.
(c) He is publicly embarrassed, but pardoned.
(d) He is warned and set free.
4. What happens to the rooster when the Merrymusk family dies?
(a) The rooster is sold for five hundred dollars.
(b) The rooster goes home with the narrator.
(c) The rooster crows on the graves.
(d) The rooster dies too.
5. What did buccaneers leave on the islands that Melville claims is proof of their better traits?
(a) Planted gardens.
(b) Buried treasure.
(c) Carved stone furniture.
(d) Planted orchards.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is the worst enemy of the narrator of "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo?"
2. What food does Bartleby appear to eat exclusively?
3. Where does the narrator in The Town-Ho's story tell his tale?
4. How does the narrator of "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo?" view locomotives and steamships?
5. How long has the uncle in "The Happy Failure" worked on his invention?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the creditor in "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo" torment the narrator?
2. Why does the narrator continue to accept Bartleby's refusals?
3. Why does Melville believe that American poor suffer more than European poor?
4. What are Turkey's shortcomings as a scrivener?
5. What purpose does the circle of listeners serve in "The Town-Ho's Story"?
6. How does the poet Blandmour feel about poverty in "Poor Man's Pudding"?
7. What does Steelkilt demand to prevent a mutiny?
8. Why does Melville come to believe that some buccaneers on the isle of Albermarle must have been gentlemen?
9. How does the narrator respond the first time Bartleby answers a request with, "I would prefer not to"?
10. Why did the first seven of Steelkilt's men come out of their imprisonment?
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