Bartleby the Scrivener Study Guide

1. Herman Melville lived primarily in

• eighteenth-century America
• nineteenth-century America
• nineteenth-century Britain
• eighteenth-century Ireland

2. Melville's works

• both are highly esteemed today and failed in his own lifetime
• are deeply Christian
• failed in his own lifetime
• are highly esteemed today

3. Melville's masterpiece, <i>Moby-Dick</i>

• was well-regarded in his own lifetime, but has fallen in esteem recently
• was not published during Melville's lifetime
• is often praised as the greatest novel in English
• has been blasted by most feminist scholars

4. "Bartleby the Scrivener" was first published

• in the eighteenth century
• in the nineteenth century
• in the seventeenth century
• in the twentieth century

5. "Bartleby the Scrivener" was

• found unfinished after Melville's death
• Melville's last novel
• originally an adventure story
• first published in <i>Putnam's</i> magazine

6. Herman Melville was a native of

• London
• Boston
• Paris
• New York City

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

• Boston's South End
• Wall Street, New York City
• the seventh arondissement of Paris
• London's Soho

8. The narrator of "Bartleby" is

• Ginger Nut
• Turkey
• Unnamed
• Nippers

9. The narrator of "Bartleby" is

• a young woman
• a young man
• an elderly man
• a man of indeterminate age

10. A "scrivener" is a

• lawyer
• bodyguard
• legal copyist
• grave-digger