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

2. Why was Bannadonna excused for the homicide he committed?
(a) It was done in self-defense.
(b) It was accidental.
(c) It was caused by esthetic passion.
(d) It was justifiable.

3. Who wrote the book lying on the apple-tree table?
(a) Faust.
(b) Melville.
(c) Hawthorne.
(d) Cotton Mather.

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

5. What do the maids work to produce?
(a) Paper.
(b) Toothpicks.
(c) Fabric.
(d) Machinery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator in "The Fiddler" aspire to become?

2. What caused the loss of Jimmy Rose's fortune?

3. Why does the narrator of "I and My Chimney" identify with his chimney?

4. What has Hautboy accomplished in "The Fiddler?"

5. What loss of John Gentian's is noticed most on May thirtieth?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to the deposition in "Benito Cereno," what would have happened to Captain Delano if he had suspected a mutiny aboard the San Dominick?

2. What is the figurehead on the San Dominick?

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

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

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

6. Why did the Spanish naval board of inquiry at first reject parts of Benito Cereno's deposition?

7. In "The Lightning Rod Man," why does the narrator pretend to mistake the salesman for the god Jupiter Tonans?

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

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

10. Why does the narrator of "I and My Chimney" believe his chimney is good for invalids?

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