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Bartleby the Scrivener Quiz 1

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, Moby-Dick
- 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 nineteenth century
- in the seventeenth century
- in the twentieth century
- in the eighteenth 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