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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22 - Billy Budd.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What human assumption does Melville say is the most preposterous?
(a) Criticism of the rich by the poor.
(b) Understanding of the rich by the poor.
(c) Understanding of the poor by the rich.
(d) Criticism of the poor by the rich.

2. With what alliteration does Melville describe the islands?
(a) Extensive elegant exotica.
(b) Fruitful festival of fecundity.
(c) An archipelago of aridities.
(d) Dark, doleful doomsday.

3. What habit of the bachelors in the Temple does the narrator wish to introduce in his own country?
(a) Mulled wine.
(b) Snuff.
(c) Aperatifs.
(d) Toasts.

4. What do the Peruvian listeners force the storyteller to do to prove his story is true?
(a) Produce another witness.
(b) Cross his heart.
(c) Swear on the Bible.
(d) Show some evidence.

5. What has Hautboy accomplished in "The Fiddler?"
(a) Hautboy has become rich.
(b) Hautboy has developed great technical proficiency.
(c) Hautboy has learned to be happy.
(d) Hautboy has become famous.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Captain Delano evaluate Benito Cereno's condition when he first meets him?

3. What do the crew members do as soon as the Town-Ho reaches port?

4. How does the narrator of "The Two Temples" attend the meeting at the church?

5. Why had Jimmy Rose often been chosen to present awards?

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