Billy Budd Quizzes

Billy Budd Quiz 1

1 Herman Melville lived primarily in
nineteenth-century Britain

nineteenth-century America

eighteenth-century Ireland

eighteenth-century America
2 Melville's novels
both are highly esteemed today and failed in his own lifetime

failed in his own lifetime

are highly esteemed today

are deeply Christian
3 Melville's masterpiece, Moby-Dick
has been blasted by most feminist scholars

was not published during Melville's lifetime

was well-regarded in his own lifetime, but his fallen in esteem recently

is often praised as the greatest novel in English
4 Billy Budd was first published
in the nineteenth century

in the eighteenth century

in the twentieth century

in the seventeenth century
5 Billy Budd was
Melville's last novel

found unfinished after Melville's death

both Melville's last novel and found unfinished after Melville's death

Melville's first novel
6 Herman Melville worked as
a sailor

an engineer

poet laureate

a doctor
7 Melville's son Malcolm
enjoyed dressing in women's clothing

killed Melville's wife

also became a great writer

committed suicide while still a teenager
8 Billy Budd is set in
the late eighteenth century

the late nineteenth century

the late seventeenth century

the early eighteenth century
9 Melville opens with a discussion of
whaling

the nature of evil

the history of American merchant ships

the Handsome Sailor
10 During the time of the story, the British Empire was menaced by
Russian expansion under Catherine the Great

Ottoman expansion under Suleyman the Magnificent

German expansion under Bismarck

French expansion under Napoleon
11 The navy was also menaced by
the threat of mutiny

the threat of ironclads

rampant sodomy

a year of unpredictable tide patterns
12 Due to short staffing, the navy often used forced conscription to get men. Such men were known as
impressed men

drafted men

forced eagles

scalawags
13 Melville digresses in chapters 3 and 4 to discuss the glorious career of
Mark Anthony

Admiral Arnold

Admiral Nelson

General Wellington
14 Billy is
beautiful, save one scar across his left shoulder and chest

a foundling

short

both a foundling and beautiful, save one scar across his left shoulder and chest
15 Billy's most serious flaw is
his stupidity

a tendency to stutter when overcome by emotion

his cynicism

his surliness
16 Billy's new nickname aboard the Bellipotent is
Buddy

Baby

Bucky

Gorgeous
17 Captain Vere's nickname is
Sandy

Starry

Thunder

Powerhouse
18 John Claggart's nickname is
Red Whiskers

Jemmy Legs

the Scorpion

Janus
19 The name of Billy's old merchant ship is the
Erebus

Graveling

Rights-of-Man

Voltaire
20 Claggart's official rank is
master-at-arms

chief of intelligence

first officer

chief of security
21 Claggart's position is something like ship's
chief of police

sailing master

mascot

firearms instructor
22 Claggart is linked to
Ahab

Satan

Pharaoh

Pontius Pilate
23 A strong allegorical tradition of reading the novella links Billy to
Moses

Prometheus

Joseph

Jesus
24 In the above-mentioned allegory, Captain Vere most closely resembles
God the Father

Elijah

Pontius Pilate

Mary
25 Part of Claggart's hatred for Billy, according to many scholars is
unfulfilled sexual desire for Billy

racism

a suspicion that Billy killed his brother

religious bigotry

explain imagery and biblical allusions in billy budd

Christian Allegory

Although the narrator rarely alludes to the Bible explicitly, Billy Budd contains many implicit allusions to the imagery, language, and stories of the Bible, creating a sustained parallel between Billy’s story and Christ’s...

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Answered by jill d #170087 on 1/17/2012 4:57 PM

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What characters demonstrate duty and principle?

Captain the Honorable Edward Fairfax Vere: Known as "Starry Vere," the captain is an erudite man and an efficient officer. Intelligent and well-read, he is sometimes criticized behind his back for being a touch too in love with abstractions and...

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Answered by jill d #170087 on 12/7/2020 1:51 PM

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what Is the “history” as shown in the billy Budd novel

Set in 1797, the novel's time period matches with the beginning of the end of the French Revolution, and also with the mutinies of Spithead and Nore that occurred in the British Royal Navy

Asked by Amal Z #1032212

Answered by Aslan on 7/2/2020 10:37 PM

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Billy Budd

by Herman Melville

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