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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 116-118.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What foreshadows what is likely to happen to Ahab and Fedallah?
(a) a story Fedallah tells while on Ahab's boat.
(b) a dream Ahab has while waiting out the night.
(c) a story Ahab remembers about Moby Dick.
(d) a dream Fedallah has while on Ahab's boat.

2. What does the dream predict can kill Ahab?
(a) fire.
(b) an iron harpoon.
(c) oil.
(d) hemp.

3. What is Starbuck's disagreement with Ahab's purpose for the trip?
(a) the moral correctness of finding the white whale.
(b) the missed opportunities to capture other whales.
(c) the futility of vengeance against a whale.
(d) the need to get oil and return to Nantucket quickly.

4. What insane crew member of the Jeroboam claims to be the Angel Gabriel?
(a) another man named Starbuck.
(b) a defrocked priest.
(c) a prophet of the Neskyeuna Shakers.
(d) a savage from the islands.

5. Why does the captain of a whale ship the Pequod meets at sea not want to board the Pequod?
(a) he does not like Ahab.
(b) his crew is ill.
(c) he never leaves his own ship.
(d) he is jealous of the Pequod's catch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ahab insist that the captain of the Jeroboam come aboard the Pequod?

2. What equipment left on board by Aunt Charity does Stubb throw overboard?

3. What does Ahab question the men about?

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

5. What is peculiar about the deck where Ahab walks?

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