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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 indicates to Captain Delano that the strange ship may be in trouble?
(a) The ship flies no flag.
(b) The ship is giving a distress signal.
(c) The ship is bound for an uninhabited island.
(d) The ship seems uncertain of its direction.

2. What is the attitude of the bachelors in the Temple toward pain and trouble?
(a) Pain and trouble are nonexistent.
(b) Pain and trouble are everywhere.
(c) Pain and trouble are unavoidable.
(d) Pain and trouble are for other people.

3. What surprises Captain Delano when he first sees Benito Cereno's ship?
(a) The ship doesn't fly the flag of any nation.
(b) The ship is giving a distress signal.
(c) The ship is bound for an uninhabited island.
(d) The ship is in ill repair.

4. What mythical character does the narrator say would have failed at his task if the chimney had then been in existence?
(a) Icharus.
(b) Atlas.
(c) Hercules.
(d) Prometheus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Captain Delano evaluate Benito Cereno's condition when he first meets him?

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

3. Whose cause does the Marquis de Grandvin champion?

4. What rumor pursues Daniel Orme into his life on shore?

5. What emblem does John Gentian refuse to wear?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the narrator claim shows Jack Gentian's natural gentility?

6. What does the narrator of "The Piazza" think when he first sees a single bright spot in the northwestern hills?

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

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

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

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

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