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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 odd behavior on the part of Ahab occurs over the apparatus used for determining latitude?
(a) Ahab dashes it against the deck of the ship.
(b) Ahab throws it overboard.
(c) Ahab uses it to throw at a whale.
(d) Ahab orders it taken to the top of the mast.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Ahab's vengeance done to him?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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