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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 81-82 | Chapter 83.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Ishmael linger on the Biblical story of Jonah?
(a) because he does not believe the Biblical account.
(b) because he remembers sermons about Jonah.
(c) because it explains a lot about whales.
(d) because some crewmen doubt the story.

2. What does Ishmael say about why some captured whales float while others tend to sink?
(a) the reason has to do with size.
(b) some whales have more solid bones.
(c) some whales take in more air.
(d) the reason is unknown.

3. How does Ishmael ultimately describe the whale?
(a) a lumbering fish with a verticle tail.
(b) an elongated fish with big eyes.
(c) a spouting fish with a horizontal tail.
(d) an elephant of the ocean.

4. What type of whale is Moby Dick, the whale they are searching for?
(a) a Greenland whale.
(b) a folio whale.
(c) a duodecimo whale.
(d) an octavo whale.

5. What is Ishmael's evidence that sperm whales have knowingly and maliciously been destructive to men and their ships?
(a) stories printed in British and American newspapers.
(b) his own experience with whales while he was at sea.
(c) interviews with survivors of whale attacks.
(d) other ships that have had bad encounters with whales.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the Try Pots Inn in Nantucket, what is the staple menu?

2. How does Queequeg manage to sign on with the Pequod after first being turned down?

3. What happens to the boat Ishmael is in during the whale hunt?

4. What type of whale are the men of the Pequod looking for?

5. What part of the whale is the most valuable to the whalers?

(see the answer key)

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