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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. How does Melville describe pelicans?
(a) Modest and humble.
(b) Clever and complicated.
(c) Woebegone and penitential.
(d) Elegant and streamlined.

2. What does Melville say is the most populous species on the island of Albermarle?
(a) Spiders.
(b) People.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Lizards.

3. What part of the United States does the narrator of the Town-Ho's story claim is much like the sea?
(a) The Great Lakes region.
(b) Lake Tahoe.
(c) The Erie Canal.
(d) The Mississippi.

4. What does the crew decide not to do after Steelkilt is flogged?
(a) Obey the captain.
(b) Start a mutiny.
(c) Desert together.
(d) Call out when whales were sighted.

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. How does the narrator describe life on the sea as compared to farming or working the Erie Canal?

2. With what alliteration does Melville describe the islands?

3. What does the narrator's middle-aged employee offer to do for Bartleby?

4. How does Merrymusk convince the narrator that he is a rich man?

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

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