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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. How does Captain Delano evaluate Babo when he first meets him?
(a) Captain Delano evaluates Babo as woefully ignorant.
(b) Captain Delano evalutes Babo as a devoted companion.
(c) Captain Delano evalutes Babo as vaguely threatening.
(d) Captain Delano evaluates Babo as uncomfortably familiar.

2. What office does Claggart hold aboard ship?
(a) Corporal.
(b) Master-at-arms.
(c) Deck master.
(d) Quartermaster.

3. Why does the Town-Ho's captain have to put the ship into port?
(a) It has sprung a leak.
(b) Its crewmen are ill with scurvy.
(c) It has run out of supplies.
(d) There has been a mutiny on board.

4. What was the message of the church meeting the narrator observed?
(a) "Hide not your light under a bushel."
(b) "Repent and be saved."
(c) "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's."
(d) "Ye are the salt of the earth."

5. What food does Bartleby appear to eat exclusively?
(a) Porridge.
(b) Pine nuts.
(c) Ginger nuts.
(d) Chestnuts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Hautboy lost in order to succeed?

2. What first alerts Billy Budd that something is amiss?

3. Who is Atufal?

4. What does the arrangement of the office allow Bartleby to do with the narrator?

5. To what biblical character does Melville compare Billy Budd?

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