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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 is peculiar about the deck where Ahab walks?
(a) It is covered with sharkskin.
(b) It is slanted and easy to lose footing.
(c) It is double decked.
(d) It has many dents made by Ahab's prosthesis.

3. What equipment left on board by Aunt Charity does Stubb throw overboard?
(a) a barrel of lemonade.
(b) a caddy for ginger water.
(c) a still for making rum.
(d) a teapot.

4. Why does Ahab's boat stay in the ocean and not return after they catch four whales?
(a) Ahab is too tired to return that evening.
(b) the whale near Ahab is too far to reach the ship by nightfall.
(c) the ship cannot handle more than three whales at a time.
(d) the whale is too large for one boat to haul.

5. What does Fedallah say about his own death?
(a) he will die of old age.
(b) he will die of fright.
(c) he will die before Ahab.
(d) he will die on land.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fedallah's dream depict about hearses?

2. What odd behavior on the part of Ahab occurs over the apparatus used for determining latitude?

3. What does Ahab question the men about?

4. Why does the captain of a whale ship the Pequod meets at sea not want to board the Pequod?

5. What is the man called who stands on deck and holds the rope that secures Queequeg?

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