Billy Budd Quiz

Billy’s nickname on the warship was

• Guy

• Spike

• Baby

• Fish

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The name of the merchant ship on which Billy was sailing before he boarded the warship was

• Indomitable

• Rights of Man

• Victory

• Spear

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Billy’s offense as he was leaving his merchant ship for the warship was to

• go down the ladder before the lieutenant

• sing

• bid farewell to his former ship and comrades

• insist that Capt. Graveling be released

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A famous naval hero whom the author mentions frequently in the story is

• John Paul Jones

• Admiral Nelson

• Napoleon

• Nelson

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The reason why the warship’s captain was very nervous about preserving the least little act of disobedience was that recently

• he had undergone a serious operation

• there had been several mutinies in the fleet

• he had been getting little sleep and had been having bad dreams

• he suspected a mechanical defect in the structure of the ship’s hull

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Capt. Vere’s nickname was

• Sandy

• Eddie

• Endless

• Starry

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Capt. Vere received his nickname

• from a quoted poem

• from the Queen

• in school

• at his marriage

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Claggart’s job aboard the ship was

• first lieutenant

• head of the sail crew

• chief of police

• captain’s office boy

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Which of the following would you most expect Captain Vere to do?

• Sit rather alone at a meeting of all the officers except the first and not feel too sad that no one is coming to talk with him

• Report, as the Naval Code prescribes, to his superior is an account of the Budd-Claggart affair

• Grumble to several fellow officers that the cook is serving food that gets worse and worse

• Have a sailor whipped for sleeping on the top of the deck on a very warm night instead of sleeping down below in his hold

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Between his trial and execution, Billy is visited by

• Claggart’s ghost

• An angel

• The captain

• The ship’s clergyman

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