View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17 - 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John Gentian say are caused by stirring deeds?
(a) Stirring rhymes.
(b) Stirring songs.
(c) Stirring novels.
(d) Stirring thoughts.

2. What is unusual about the strange ship's figurehead?
(a) It is obviously from Castile.
(b) It is covered in canvas wrapping.
(c) It is beautifully carved.
(d) It is a plain, unmarked beak.

3. Whose cause does the Marquis de Grandvin champion?
(a) Women.
(b) Freedom fighters.
(c) Animals.
(d) The French.

4. In "The Piazza," how does the narrator's house look to the inhabitants of the mountain cottage?
(a) Like a prison.
(b) Like a palace.
(c) Like a happy place.
(d) Like a mansion.

5. What does Melville believe the charities of London do for the poor?
(a) The charities of London madden the poor.
(b) The charities of London embolden the poor.
(c) The charities of London soften the poor.
(d) The charities of London strengthen the poor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the American ship, the Essex, see in the Encantadas?

2. What habit of the bachelors in the Temple does the narrator wish to introduce in his own country?

3. How does the narrator of "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo?" view locomotives and steamships?

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

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 275 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample