The Piazza Tales True or False

1. Which story references the Tower of Babel as a way to highlight prideful defiance of the Gods? -> "The Bell Tower"
2. The excerpts from Spenser's "The Fairie Queene" in "The Encantadas" are used -> ironically, since the Galapagos are nothing like a fairy-land.
3. When he finds out that Bartleby is dead, the narrator quotes from -> the Book of Job.
4. In "The Piazza", Melville mentions reading -> Shakespeare's Midsummer's Night Dream, foreshadowing the dream of Marianna.
5. Abraham Cowley -> was a poet.

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