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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 does the narrator in "The Fiddler" do with his manuscripts?
(a) Tears them up.
(b) Pays to have them printed.
(c) Sends them to publishers.
(d) Reads them to strangers.

2. What causes Captain Delano to suspect Benito Cereno is an impostor?
(a) His ignorance of seamanship.
(b) His bad manners.
(c) His confusion.
(d) His weakness in command.

3. Who finally persuaded the narrator of "I and My Chimney" to knock a few feet off the chimney?
(a) His wife.
(b) His daughters.
(c) His neighbor.
(d) His mortgage holder

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Captain Delano evaluate the relationship between Benito Cereno and Babo?

2. What surprises Captain Delano when he first sees Benito Cereno's ship?

3. Why does the lightning rod salesman claim that his rods are superior?

4. How does the narrator of "The Apple-Tree Table" feel as his wife and daughters become more frightened?

5. What god does the narrator in "The Lightning Rod Man" think the salesman resembles?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the figurehead on the San Dominick?

2. Why is the narrator despondent at the beginning of "The Fiddler"?

3. What foibles does the narrator claim Jack Gentian possesses?

4. What does the landscape painter, B. Hobbema Brown, believe about the Marquis de Grandvin?

5. What does the chimney in "I and My Chimney" provide for the narrator on the second landing?

6. What seems odd about Benito Cereno's ship when Captain Delano first sees it?

7. What does the bug in the apple-tree table teach the narrator's daughter, Julia?

8. What does Jimmy Rose retain after he has lost his fortune?

9. Why doesn't the narrator in "The Piazza" grant Marianna's wish and tell her that he is the resident of the house that she believes contains happiness?

10. Why does the narrator of "The Lightning Rod Man" compare the salesman to a worm?

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