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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 81-82 | Chapter 83.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What story about a whale attack compares to the history of the Titanic?
(a) the ship was believed to be unsinkable.
(b) the ship was sunk on its maiden expedition.
(c) the ship struck an ice berg while chasing a whale.
(d) the whale looked like an ice berg.

2. Why does Ishmael linger on the Biblical story of Jonah?
(a) because he remembers sermons about Jonah.
(b) because he does not believe the Biblical account.
(c) because some crewmen doubt the story.
(d) because it explains a lot about whales.

3. Why does Ishmael advise against putting intellectual men on watch?
(a) they become easily bored.
(b) they analyze too much.
(c) they ask too many questions.
(d) they become engrossed in their own thoughts.

4. What does Stubb instruct Daggoo to do for him?
(a) carve his name on the whale's back.
(b) cut out a tooth from the whale.
(c) cut a steak from the tail of the whale.
(d) take over securing the whale to the ship.

5. After the whale is captured, what is the next step?
(a) removing its skin.
(b) hauling it back to the ship.
(c) cutting off its head and tail.
(d) estimating its weight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which ship does Ishmael select for him and Queequeg to sign on?

2. What strange thing does Ahab do looking at the head of the captured whale?

3. To what does Ishmael attribute the Sag Harbor man's disbelief in the story of Jonah?

4. Why does Ishmael think Chapter 45 is the most important one in the book?

5. What is Ishmael's evidence that sperm whales have knowingly and maliciously been destructive to men and their ships?

(see the answer key)

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