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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 - 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator of "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo?" believe the rooster's crow is saying?
(a) Beware!
(b) Hark!
(c) Hello!
(d) Glory be to God in the highest!

4. What are the two failings the narrator sees in his middle-aged scrivener?
(a) Dishonesty and ambition.
(b) Ambition and indigestion.
(c) A bad temper and gambling.
(d) Indigestion and messiness.

5. How does the narrator of "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo?" view locomotives and steamships?
(a) As symbols of human ingenuity.
(b) As uniters of families.
(c) As harbingers of a bright future.
(d) As instruments of destruction.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator in "The Fiddler" do with his manuscripts?

2. What two characteristics does Melville attribute to the islands of the Encantadas?

3. What does Blandmour believe God does for the poor?

4. What food does Bartleby appear to eat exclusively?

5. Why does the captain decide not to flog Steelkilt?

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