Melville Stories: 'Benito Cereno' (Part 1) Quiz: Quick Quiz

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What phrase is written in Spanish underneath the figurehead of the San Dominick?

a) "Follow your leader"
b) "For king and country"
c) "Past is prologue"
d) "Abandon all hope"

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What do the sailors and black slaves of the San Dominick first do when Amasa Delano boards?

a) Cheer
b) Request water and supplies
c) Offer water and supplies
d) Sing

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How does Delano justify the strange and aloof behavior of the San Dominick's captain, Benito Cereno?

a) Cereno's foreign manners
b) Cereno's loneliness
c) Cereno's starvation
d) Cereno's aristocratic origins

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Who catches Benito Cereno during his many fainting spells?

a) Amasa Delano
b) His black servant, Babo
c) One of Cereno's slaves
d) One of Delano's sailors

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Why, according to Cereno's story, did his crew leave behind most of its water and supplies?

a) To sail faster
b) To carry more cargo
c) To carry more slaves
d) A storm

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'Benito Cereno' (Part 1) Quiz

1 of 5
What phrase is written in Spanish underneath the figurehead of the San Dominick?

2 of 5
What do the sailors and black slaves of the San Dominick first do when Amasa Delano boards?

3 of 5
How does Delano justify the strange and aloof behavior of the San Dominick's captain, Benito Cereno?

4 of 5
Who catches Benito Cereno during his many fainting spells?

5 of 5
Why, according to Cereno's story, did his crew leave behind most of its water and supplies?

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1 of 5 What phrase is written in Spanish underneath the figurehead of the San Dominick?

2 of 5 What do the sailors and black slaves of the San Dominick first do when Amasa Delano boards?

3 of 5 How does Delano justify the strange and aloof behavior of the San Dominick's captain, Benito Cereno?

4 of 5 Who catches Benito Cereno during his many fainting spells?

5 of 5 Why, according to Cereno's story, did his crew leave behind most of its water and supplies?

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1 of 5
What phrase is written in Spanish underneath the figurehead of the San Dominick?

2 of 5
What do the sailors and black slaves of the San Dominick first do when Amasa Delano boards?

3 of 5
How does Delano justify the strange and aloof behavior of the San Dominick's captain, Benito Cereno?

4 of 5
Who catches Benito Cereno during his many fainting spells?

5 of 5
Why, according to Cereno's story, did his crew leave behind most of its water and supplies?