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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 - Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What prevents Steelkilt from taking revenge on Radney?
(a) Steelkilt has a change of heart.
(b) Moby Dick kills Radney.
(c) Radney apologizes.
(d) The captain orders Radney executed.

2. Where do both the captain and Steelkilt go after they separate?
(a) Hawaii.
(b) Tahiti.
(c) England.
(d) France.

3. How does the narrator accommodate the weakness of his oldest scrivener?
(a) By giving him unimportant papers in the morning.
(b) By hiring an assistant for him.
(c) By giving him unimportant papers in the afternoon.
(d) By allowing him to work only half a day.

4. What age is the narrator of Bartleby?
(a) In his sixties.
(b) In his forties.
(c) In his fifties.
(d) In his thirties.

5. Whose job is it to normally sweep the deck of a ship?
(a) The lowest seaman.
(b) The men on watch.
(c) The boys on board.
(d) All members of the work gangs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the profession of the narrator of Bartleby?

2. What nicknames does the narrator of Bartleby give his employees?

3. What benefit does the narrator get from his indulgence of Bartleby's eccentricities?

4. In which of Melville's novels is "The Town-Ho's Story" included?

5. Why does the captain fear to shoot Steelkilt for his insubordination?

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