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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 Paradise of Bachelors" say has become of the Knights Templar?
(a) They've become lawyers.
(b) They've become doctors.
(c) They've become warriors.
(d) They've become schoolteachers.

2. How does the lightning rod salesman feel about thunderstorms?
(a) He is assured of his own safety.
(b) He is terrified.
(c) He is confident.
(d) He is relaxed and unafraid.

3. Why does the narrator of "Jimmy Rose" refuse to change the wallpaper in his parlor?
(a) It reminds him of Jimmy Rose.
(b) It reminds him of better days.
(c) It reminds him or a rose garden.
(d) It reminds him of his childhood.

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

5. In "I and My Chimney," what is the narrator's wife's maxim?
(a) Whatever is, is right.
(b) Whatever is not, is not.
(c) Whatever.
(d) Whatever is, is wrong and must be altered.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator of "The Piazza" feel that the house must have a piazza?

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

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

4. Why does the narrator of "The Piazza" believe the soil is richer around the cottage that he finds?

5. Why was Bannadonna excused for the homicide he committed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How have the Knights Templar changed, according to Melville's observations, in "The Paradise of Bachelors"?

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

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

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