Benito Cereno Questions & Answers

by Herman Melville

"Benito Cereno," one of Melville's most enduring and intriguing works, was first published in Putnam's Monthly in October, November and December, 1855. Melville later collected it in The Piazza Tales (1856), a collection that also included "Bartleby, the Scrivener" and "The Bell-Tower." "Benito…