Billy Budd | Chapter 22 Questions and Answers

Study Questions
1. What is significant about the time period when Billy’s fatal action occurs?

2. Why does Captain Vere decide to hold a drumhead court rather than wait and refer the case to the admiral?

3. Why does Vere have doubts about the suitability of the captain of the marines for serving on the drumhead court?

4. What explanation does Billy give for striking the fatal blow?

5. How does Vere behave while the court is deliberating?

6. Why does Vere intercede and declare himself a “coadjutor”?

7. Why are the officers told...


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