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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 had Hautboy lost in order to succeed?
(a) Conscience.
(b) Fear.
(c) Guilt.
(d) Glory.

2. What emblem does John Gentian refuse to wear?
(a) Any American flag.
(b) Any emblem of wealth.
(c) Any Civil War emblem.
(d) Any Revolutionary War emblem.

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

4. What does the narrator's wife think of his apprehension about the apple-tree table?
(a) She thinks he is making it up.
(b) She thinks he is crazy.
(c) She thinks he is trying to frighten her.
(d) She thinks he is drunk.

5. Why does John Gentian take "liberties with etiquette"?
(a) He is rude and thoughtless.
(b) He is unlearned.
(c) He is straightforward and impulsive.
(d) He is concerned with larger issues.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why had Jimmy Rose often been chosen to present awards?

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

3. What caused the bell-ringing automaton to kill Bannadonna?

4. What first attracts the narrator of "The Piazza" to a building far in the mountains?

5. How does Captain Delano view the attitude of the black people on board?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator of "The Fiddler" first admire about Hautboy?

2. What is Captain Delano's intention in boarding Benito Cereno's ship?

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

4. What is unusual about the bug that emerges from the apple-tree table in the story of that name?

5. Why do the peacocks on the wallpaper in the parlor seem to the narrator to represent Jimmy Rose?

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

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

8. Why does the owner of the paper factory in "The Tartarus of Maids" tell the narrator that all of his workers are called "girls"?

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

10. What is the figurehead on the San Dominick?

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