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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 habit of the bachelors in the Temple does the narrator wish to introduce in his own country?
(a) Mulled wine.
(b) Snuff.
(c) Toasts.
(d) Aperatifs.

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

3. What contributes to the narrator's thoughts about the apple-tree table being supernatural?
(a) The table is old.
(b) The table is unusually beautiful.
(c) The table is Satanic-looking.
(d) The table is inscribed with signs and symbols.

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

5. What emblem does John Gentian wear on his left lapel?
(a) Gold eagle wings.
(b) A golden circle.
(c) A Masonic symbol.
(d) An army medal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's wife think of his apprehension about the apple-tree table?

2. What do the maids work to produce?

3. How does the narrator of "The Piazza" travel to the spot in the mountains that he wants to see?

4. What does the narrator in "The Paradise of Bachelors" say has become of the Knights Templar?

5. What did Jimmy Rose have to offer the rich after he lost his fortune?

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Melville say is the difference between boarding a strange ship and entering a strange house?

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