Moby-Dick Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

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Moby-Dick Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 133.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Ishmael and Stubb discuss about captains and whaling?
(a) whether the captain should take the helm.
(b) whether the captain should go on the boats.
(c) whether captains know enough about whales.
(d) whether captains should be harpooners.

2. To what does Ishmael compare the weaving of a mat?
(a) complications.
(b) whaling.
(c) map making.
(d) life.

3. What further detailed information does Ishmael record about the whale?
(a) he discusses the birth process of whales.
(b) he details migratory habits of whales.
(c) he talks about the breeding grounds of whales.
(d) he discusses the measurement of the whale.

4. Where is the large hunting ground where the Pequod finds itself in the middle of a pod of sperm whales?
(a) near Jakarta.
(b) near Nantucket.
(c) near Japan.
(d) near Capetown.

5. What does Ishmael say the head of the sperm whale contains?
(a) hard bone used as a battering ram.
(b) a gigantic brain.
(c) the largest and the most pure quantity of sperm whale oil.
(d) soft tissue that contains no oil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Queequeg's duty while the blubber is stripped from the back of the whale?

2. What makes Starbuck come and talk to Ahab.

3. What is the effect of Ahab's distraction on Starbuck?

4. What story about a whale attack compares to the history of the Titanic?

5. What has happened to some of the crew of The Delight?

(see the answer key)

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