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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What impresses the narrator about the mill?
(a) The cheerfulness of the workers.
(b) The efficiency of the operation.
(c) The gigantic press machine.
(d) The clean air and water.

2. What first alarms the narrator about the apple-tree table?
(a) A ticking sound.
(b) A steady drip.
(c) A sense of pervading evil.
(d) A mysterious odor.

3. What is the temperature at the mill?
(a) Cold.
(b) Oppressively hot.
(c) Warm.
(d) Hot.

4. How do the bachelors in the Temple keep time?
(a) By their reminiscences.
(b) By the jokes they told.
(c) By the wine they drank.
(d) By the courses of the meal.

5. What sort of feet did the apple-tree table have?
(a) Carved mahogany.
(b) Marble balls.
(c) Hooves like Satan.
(d) Brass fittings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused the bell-ringing automaton to kill Bannadonna?

2. What animal from the islands supplies sailors with food and utensils?

3. What human assumption does Melville say is the most preposterous?

4. Why doesn't the narrator dismiss Bartleby for insubordination?

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

(see the answer key)

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