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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 second objection the Sag Harbor man has for the veracity of the story of Jonah?
(a) the whale would bite and not swallow whole.
(b) the throat of the whale could not swallow a man.
(c) the gastric juices of the whale would have killed Jonah.
(d) there is no oxygen inside a whale's stomach.

2. At the Try Pots Inn in Nantucket, what is the staple menu?
(a) ham and gravy.
(b) bacon and eggs.
(c) clam and cod chowder.
(d) fish and chips.

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

4. What strange thing does Ahab do looking at the head of the captured whale?
(a) he speaks to it.
(b) he drives a harpoon through it.
(c) he curses it.
(d) he watches it all night long.

5. How does Ishmael ultimately describe the whale?
(a) a spouting fish with a horizontal tail.
(b) an elongated fish with big eyes.
(c) an elephant of the ocean.
(d) a lumbering fish with a verticle tail.

Short Answer Questions

1. What story about a whale attack compares to the history of the Titanic?

2. What do they find in the corpse of the blind and crippled whale?

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

4. To what does Ishmael compare the weaving of a mat?

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

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