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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 is the major problem while the whale is tied to the side of the ship?
(a) keeping the sharks away.
(b) keeping the ropes from breaking.
(c) balancing the ship.
(d) changing the direction of the ship.

2. What early shipboard duty does Ishmael describe?
(a) his experience in swabbing the deck.
(b) his time in the whaling boats.
(c) his first experience serving watch.
(d) his work in the galley.

3. To what does Ishmael attribute the hieroglyphic-like markings on the whale skin?
(a) contacts with ships.
(b) ageing.
(c) scrapes from coral reefs.
(d) contacts with other whales.

4. To what does Ishmael compare the weaving of a mat?
(a) map making.
(b) life.
(c) whaling.
(d) complications.

5. To what does Ishmael attribute the Sag Harbor man's disbelief in the story of Jonah?
(a) his minute education and inability to reason.
(b) his custom of arguing with everyone.
(c) his listening to too many doubters.
(d) his personal experience inside a whale.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of whale are the men of the Pequod looking for?

2. What does Ishmael say about why some captured whales float while others tend to sink?

3. After the whale is captured, what is the next step?

4. Why does Ishmael advise against putting intellectual men on watch?

5. Why does Ishmael linger on the Biblical story of Jonah?

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