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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Ishmael believe about the survival of whales as a species?
(a) that they will overpopulate the oceans and seas.
(b) that they will evolve into smaller creatures.
(c) that they will never become extinct.
(d) that they will be killed off.
2. What does Fedallah's dream depict about hearses?
(a) Ahab will see one not made with human hands.
(b) Ahab will never ride in a hearse.
(c) Ahab will be saved by a hearse.
(d) Ahab will ride in a wooden hearse.
3. To what complaint does Ahab admit?
(a) never being able to sleep.
(b) the fear of losing both legs.
(c) mental instability at times.
(d) phantom pain from his missing leg.
4. From what does the Pequod escape at sea?
(a) Japanese gun boats.
(b) Malay pirates.
(c) a giant squid.
(d) an ocean whirlpool.
5. What had one of the boats from The Rachel accomplished?
(a) they spied Moby Dick.
(b) they harpooned Moby Dick.
(c) they escaped Moby Dick.
(d) they got all around Moby Dick.
6. What does Ishmael recount about the Samuel Enderby that occurs many years later?
(a) he hears that Moby Dick sank the ship.
(b) he meets a sailor who remembers Captain Ahab.
(c) he learns how the Samuel Enderby ran aground.
(d) he has a fine social evening on board the ship.
7. While Starbuck is talking, what is Ahab thinking?
(a) what his family is doing back home.
(b) why he must kill Moby Dick.
(c) where they will find Moby Dick.
(d) why Starbuck talks so much.
8. How does Ishmael classify the oiling of the bottom of a boat?
(a) a ceremony performed for Neptune.
(b) a ceremony performed for good luck.
(c) a ceremony performed to attract whales.
(d) a ceremony of initiation of new sailors.
9. How does Stubb regain a dead whale from a French whaling boat?
(a) by playing poker.
(b) by stealing the dead whale at night.
(c) by using humor and intelligence.
(d) by threatening to blow up their boat.
10. What is the carpenter doing when Ahab ascends to deck the next morning?
(a) carving Ahab's new ivory leg.
(b) making a table for the captain.
(c) turning the coffin into a life buoy.
(d) repairing holes in the deck.
11. How did the watch on the mast of The Rachel know that Moby Dick had probably been harpooned.
(a) he saw the White Whale attack the boat.
(b) it happened right near The Rachel.
(c) he saw the boat being pulled away.
(d) he thought he could see it happen.
12. What is the first thing Moby Dick does when he is spotted?
(a) he sounds and disappears under the sea.
(b) he swims away fast on the surface.
(c) he swims toward the Pequod.
(d) he flukes and dives deep.
13. What is the condition of the baby whale they harpoon?
(a) it is sick from swallowing a turtle.
(b) it is still attached by an umbilical cord.
(c) it is lost from its mother.
(d) it is dying from lack of milk.
14. What is the crew of The Delight about to do as the Pequod comes alongside?
(a) man the whale boats.
(b) repair the masts.
(c) bury one of their men.
(d) lower the sails.
15. What does Fedallah say is the advantage of having the Right Whale on the other side of the ship?
(a) to draw the sharks away from the sperm whale.
(b) to keep the ship from capsizing.
(c) to attract other whales to the area.
(d) to appease the sea gods.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Ahab order the Pequod to do in violation of maritime tradition?
2. What happens to the mast of the Pequod during a typhoon?
3. Which of the characters keep watch on both the crew and the ocean?
4. What is the news from The Rachel as it nears the Pequod?
5. What does Ahab do in an excited state after visiting the Samuel Enderby?
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