1.

The narrator of "Bartleby" is...

5.

Bartleby's trademark statement is...

A.  an accountant.
B.  the prison guard.
C.  a lawyer.
D.  the building's owner.

A.  "I want you to help me."
B.  "I do not want to."
C.  "I doubt that."
D.  "I never eat dinner."

2.

The narrator of "Bartleby" is...

6.

Including Bartleby, the narrator had...

A.  a young woman.
B.  a young man.
C.  an elderly man.
D.  a man of indeterminate age.

A.  two employees.
B.  three employees.
C.  four employees.
D.  five employees.

3.

A "scrivener" is a...

7.

The narrator is disarmed by Bartleby's..

A.  lawyer.
B.  bodyguard.
C.  legal copyist.
D.  grave-digger.

A.  warmth.
B.  passivity.
C.  effeminacy.
D.  fierce anger.

4.

The work of scriveners is nowadays done by...

8.

When the narrator went to the prison, Bartleby was...

A.  immigrant labor.
B.  foreign banks.
C.  machines.
D.  trained animals.

A.  writing some legal papers.
B.  eating some ginger cakes.
C.  sleeping in the prison yard.
D.  sitting on the empty floor.