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Bartleby the Scrivener Quiz 1

By Eddie Borey · Last reviewed November 18, 2001

1 Herman Melville lived primarily in

eighteenth-century Ireland

nineteenth-century America

nineteenth-century Britain

eighteenth-century America
2 Melville's works

both are highly esteemed today and failed in his own lifetime

are deeply Christian

are highly esteemed today

failed in his own lifetime
3 Melville's masterpiece, Moby-Dick

is often praised as the greatest novel in English

was not published during Melville's lifetime

has been blasted by most feminist scholars

was well-regarded in his own lifetime, but has fallen in esteem recently
4 "Bartleby the Scrivener" was first published

in the nineteenth century

in the twentieth century

in the eighteenth century

in the seventeenth century
5 "Bartleby the Scrivener" was

originally an adventure story

found unfinished after Melville's death

first published in Putnam's magazine

Melville's last novel
6 Herman Melville was a native of

London

New York City

Boston

Paris
7 "Bartleby the Scrivener" is set in/on

Wall Street, New York City

the seventh arondissement of Paris

Boston's South End

London's Soho
8 The narrator of "Bartleby" is

Nippers

Turkey

Unnamed

Ginger Nut
9 The narrator of "Bartleby" is

a young man

a man of indeterminate age

an elderly man

a young woman
10 A "scrivener" is a

lawyer

grave-digger

bodyguard

legal copyist
11 The work of scriveners is now done by

trained animals

foreign banks

machines

immigrant labor
12 Turkey is

a dog

a young man

the narrator

an elderly man
13 Nippers is

both a scrivener and a young man

a scrivener

a young man

a dog
14 Ginger Nut is

an office-boy

both a scrivener and an office-boy

a scrivener

the narrator's son
15 Bartleby is

boisterous

rich

belligerent

a young man
16 The windows on one side of the office look out onto

Central Park

Hyde Park

a light shaft

le Jardin Luxembourg
17 The windows on the other side of the office look out onto

a busy street

a wall

a textiles factory

the edge of Chinatown
18 Bartleby's trademark statement is

"All in good time."

"I would prefer not to."

"I doubt that."

"I accept Jesus."
19 Bartleby utters his trademark statement for the first time when

asked if he believes in fate

asked to help proofread some copies

asked to get food for everyone

told that he will be rich
20 The narrator describes himself as

"an eminently lazy man"

"an eminently clever man"

"an eminently safe man"

"an eminently respectable man"
21 The narrator has always believed

the easiest way is best

pain is the way to redemption

love is stronger than hate

man is inherently evil
22 Bartleby is often described in terms reminiscent of

a stallion

a dog

a bull

a corpse
23 Bartleby is also often described in terms reminiscent of

a criminal

a ghost

a dandy

a demon
24 The narrator is disarmed by Bartleby's

warmth

fierce anger

effeminacy

passivity
25 Nippers is

productive in the morning but unproductive in the afternoon

productive in the morning but unproductive at night

productive in the afternoon but unproductive at night

productive in the afternoon but unproductive in the morning

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