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"...Yet the angel must hang!"
Billy Ascended
"Passion, and passion in its profoundest,..."
"Anybody will do anything for Billy Budd."
"Vere is a noble fellow, Starry Vere."
100
Claggart schedules a meeting with Captain Vere in order to accuse Billy Budd of assembling this type of crime.
What is mutiny?
100
What are Billy's last words?
What is "God Bless Captain Vere"
100
What incident fueled Claggart's rage towards Billy Budd?
What is spilled soup?
100
After Billy leaves the Rights-of-Man, he joins the crew of this ship.
What is the Bellipotent
100
Billy accidentally spills this liquid on the newly scrubbed deck.
What is soup?
200
He was described as a “dangerous character in a ship mustering some who not only had taken a guilty part in the late serious troubles”.
Who is Claggert?
200
What ship attacks the Bellipotent after Billy's death?
What is the Athee
200
What is the nickname of the man who the sailors think of as a rat?
What is 'Squeak'?
200
War hero who led British fleet at the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar.
Who is Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson
200
Billy Bud confides his troubles of getting into trouble on the ship to this man
What is the Dansker?
300
This man said, ““Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!”
Who is Captain Vere?
300
What is highly revered after Billy's death?
What is the hanging spar
300
Who says, "Why, Jemmy Legs is down on you?"
What is Dansker?
300
He was the only member of the Rights-of-Man who disliked Billy.
Who is Red Whiskers?
300
Captain Vere has a habit of reading history books, bibliographies, and unconventional writers like this man.
What is Montaigne?
400
The line “like handling a dead snake” could symbolize Claggart as this Biblical character.
Who is the Serpent in the Garden of Eden (or Satan)?
400
Where is Billy's final destination?
What are the "oozy weeds"
400
"Yes, as a class, sailors are in character a (what?) race."
What is juvenile?
400
The breed of dog to which Billy's personality is compared.
What is St. Bernard
400
John Claggart is thought to be a product of this system.
What is the prison system?
500
Name two of the three possible people/groups of people that found Captain Vere’s decision to have a trail as hasty.
Who are the surgeon, the lieutenants, and the captains?
500
What is the last refuge of a scoundrel?
What is "Patriotism"
500
What biblical reference is made by Vere when referencing to Claggart and Billy Budd when the mutiny is mentioned?
What is Joseph?
500
This is the year that the story takes place.
What is 1797
500
The author compares Claggart's chin to this Shawnee chief.
Who is Tecumseh's?