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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the rooster when the Merrymusk family dies?
(a) The rooster goes home with the narrator.
(b) The rooster is sold for five hundred dollars.
(c) The rooster dies too.
(d) The rooster crows on the graves.

2. What do Steelkilt and his men demand in return for obeying orders?
(a) They will not have to sweep the decks.
(b) Radney will be punished.
(c) They will be given better wages.
(d) They will not be punished.

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

4. What is the main task of the narrator's youngest employee in Bartleby?
(a) Copying.
(b) Cook.
(c) Legal research.
(d) Errand boy.

5. What do the crew members do as soon as the Town-Ho reaches port?
(a) They desert the ship.
(b) They give up life on the sea.
(c) They call for help.
(d) They murder the captain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who takes possession as the sole ruler of St. Charles Isle?

2. What is the first thing Bartleby says he would prefer not to do?

3. What age is the narrator of Bartleby?

4. How does the narrator of "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo?" view the world?

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

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