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WorksheetsBilly Budd, Sailor
Total questions: 51
Worksheet time: 17mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The author saw a common sailor so intensely black that he must have been a native African of the unadulterate blood of ________.
a)
Noah
b)
Shem
c)
Ham
d)
Japheth
2.
How old was Billy Budd?
a)
19
b)
21
c)
25
d)
30
3.
What ship was put forth short of her proper compliment of men?
a)
U.S.S. United States
b)
H.M.S. Lusitania
c)
H.M.S. Bellipotent
d)
U.S.S. Typee
4.
On which ship was Billy Budd?
a)
U.S.S. United States
b)
H.M.S. Lusitania
c)
H.M.S. Bellipotent
d)
U.S.S. Typee
5.
Captain Graveling is explaining to the lieutenant that, previous to Billy Budd's appearance, the Captain's forecastle was:
a)
An Irish shindy Hell on earth
b)
Black times
c)
A rat pit of quarrels
d)
Hell on earth
6.
Captain Graveling tells the Lt., "You are going to take away..."
a)
The diamond of my crew
b)
My best carpenter
c)
My peacemaker
d)
The biggest hypocrite I ever heard of
7.
According to Billy Budd, who wrote Rights of Man?
a)
Thomas Paine
b)
Stephen Girard
c)
Voltaire
d)
Captain Graveling
8.
'The impressed portion of the ship's company" indicates
a)
That there were still some who did not take to Billy Budd
b)
Many had never been on a ship of such grandeur
c)
Billy Budd was the quintessential foretopman
d)
Some sailors were not officially but rather, legally shanghaied
9.
Who was Billy Budd's father?
a)
A good man in Bristol
b)
God knows
c)
Captain Haverling
d)
Captain Stubing
10.
What is the season and the year as chapter 3 opens?
a)
Winter 1818
b)
Summer 1797
c)
April 1818
d)
Spring 1797
11.
Where was 'The Great Mutiny'?
a)
Nore
b)
Spithead
c)
England
d)
The Bellipotent
12.
What does the star inserted into the Victory's quarter-deck designate?
a)
Victory at Trafalgar
b)
Where the Great Sailor fell
c)
Nelson's ornate publication
d)
The challenge to the death represented by Trafalgar
13.
What foreran (happened before) the 2 mutinies?
a)
Discontent
b)
Anxiety
c)
Anticipation
d)
Abrogation
14.
What is a synonym for sporadic?
a)
Conventional
b)
Expected
c)
Erratic
d)
Regular
15.
What is a synonym for Allegiance?
a)
Loyalty
b)
Treachery
c)
Infidelity
d)
Fickleness
16.
What is a synonym for abrogate?
a)
Enforce
b)
Encourage
c)
Ratify
d)
Repeal
17.
What was Vere's novel prefix?
a)
Ed
b)
Starry
c)
Captain
d)
Fairfax
18.
What is a synonym for incumbent?
a)
Predecessor
b)
Historical
c)
Tightly-wrapped
d)
Current
19.
What was Vere's novel prefix?
a)
Ed
b)
Starry
c)
Captain
d)
Fairfax
20.
Captain Vere had a marked leaning toward
a)
Books
b)
Isolated leisure
c)
A newly replenished library
d)
Everything intellectual
21.
What was John Claggart's position on the Bellipotent?
a)
Captain
b)
Lieutenant
c)
Foretopman
d)
Master-at-Arms
22.
By what name did Billy eventually become know aboard ship?
a)
Baby Budd
b)
Booby Budd
c)
Bully Budd
d)
Boney Budd
23.
What was the essence of Billy Budd's problem?
a)
Jimmy legs like him
b)
Mr. Claggart didn't like him
c)
The Dansker wouldn't tell Billy who Jemmy Legs was
d)
Billy, through everyone liked him
24.
What was the Dansker's leading characteristic?
a)
Cyninism
b)
Wrinkles
c)
A long scar
d)
Shrewdness
25.
What's another name for "Board-her-in-the-smoke"? a. Jemmy Legs b. Dansker c. Donald d. Master-at-Arms
a)
Jemmy Legs
b)
Dansker
c)
Donald
d)
Master-at-Arms
26.
What is it that is no flatterer of mankind though it never speaks ill of it?
a)
Civilization
b)
Platonic Depravity
c)
Calvinistic Depravity
d)
Sordid or sensual depravity
27.
What originally moved Claggart against Billy? a. Billy's overwhelming intellect b. Billy's lack of intellect c. Claggart's significant personal beauty d. Billy's significant personal beauty
a)
Billy's overwhelming intellect
b)
Billy's lack of intellect
c)
Claggart's significant personal beauty
d)
Billy's significant personal beauty
28.
What was the moral phenomenon presented in Billy Budd?
a)
Apprehensive jealousy
b)
He had never willed malice
c)
A disdain of innocence
d)
A despairing of a free and easy temper
29.
What, in the case of Platonic depravity, is apt to be in monstrous proportion to the supposed offence?
a)
Exactions
b)
Actions
c)
Retributions
d)
Retaliations
30.
Who was the tattle-tale on the Bellipotent?
a)
The foretopman
b)
Guy Fawkes
c)
Squeak the rat
d)
Squeak the corporal
31.
Why did Billy start to stutter?
a)
His vocal infirmity somewhat intruded
b)
His resentful eagerness to deliver himself
c)
He thoroughly shook off his drowse
d)
"I found an afterguardsman in our part of the ship."
32.
To whom did Billy disburden himself?
a)
Loyal bluejacket
b)
A group of smokers
c)
The old dansker
d)
Jemmy Legs
33.
Billy was ready to ascribe the problem almost to anybody except Claggart because
a)
Claggart was the master-at-arms
b)
Claggart had a pleasant word for him
c)
Billy was much of a child-man
d)
Billy's intelligence had increased ut his simplemindedness
34.
For what position had Captain Vere considered Billy?
a)
Captain
b)
Master-at-arms
c)
Executive Officer
d)
Captain of the Mizzentop
35.
Whom did Captain Vere send to fetch Billy Budd?
a)
A topman
b)
Albert
c)
Mr. Wilkes
d)
A few gun-room officers
36.
What did the other officers believe the proper action should be following the homicide?
a)
Hide the body and pretend it never happened
b)
Convene a trial immediately
c)
Shoot Billy Buddy for mutiny
d)
Refer the case to the admiral
37.
This unhappy event occurred at a time when the naval authorities required two qualities. What were they?
a)
Jugglery and cruciality
b)
Prudence and rigor
c)
Interfusability and prudence
d)
Suppression and rigor
38.
How many people, besides the captain were presiding at the drumhead court?
a)
1
b)
2
c)
3
d)
4
39.
When asked about mutinous intents on the Bellipotent Billy s answer was
a)
Yes
b)
No
40.
The buttons that the officers wear attest to their allegiance to:
a)
King
b)
nature
c)
Instinct
d)
Captain Vere
41.
Why was Billy s sentence delayed until the early morning watch?
a)
Because of his speech impediment
b)
It was not on the field
c)
It was customary to delay a mortal punishment
d)
It was night
42.
What suppressed the crew s waxing murmur?
a)
Claggart's funeral
b)
The boatswain and his mates
c)
The coming about of the Bellipotent
d)
The Boatswains whistles
43.
Certain measures were taken to absolutely insure what point?
a)
That no unusual precautions would be visible
b)
That no one but the chaplain would be speak to Billy
c)
That the officers apprehended all things amiss
d)
That any mutinous act would be suppressed with extreme prejudice
44.
What stands nearer to Unadulterate Nature?
a)
Billy Budd
b)
The minister of Christ receiving his stipend from Mars
c)
Highly civilized communities
d)
So-called barbarous communities
45.
What is a better thing than religion wherewith to go to judgment?
a)
Discretion
b)
Innocence
c)
The good sense of a good heart
d)
A Chaplains vocation
46.
What time is signified by 8 bells?
a)
8 a.m.
b)
4 a.m.
c)
1600 hours
d)
800 hours
47.
What is the subject of conversation in Chapter 26?
a)
Billy's death throes
b)
Billy's will power
c)
Billy's absence of spasmodic movement
d)
The fat purser's ignorance and superstition
48.
What served as Billy s coffin?
a)
A coffin
b)
His clothing
c)
Billy's sea-chest
d)
Billy's hammock
49.
In what port did Captain Vere die?
a)
Gibraltar
b)
The Nile
c)
Trafalgar
d)
Athee
50.
According to Dr. Johnson, patriotism is the last refuge of a
a)
Patriot
b)
Sailor
c)
Politician
d)
Scoundrel
51.
What item from the Bellipotent became venerated as a monument?
a)
Billy's hammock
b)
The cross from the Bellipotent
c)
The scar from which the foretopman was suspended
d)
A dockyard yardarm
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