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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 41-42 | Chapters 43-44.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Ishmael think is more remarkable than the whale's size and color?
(a) its intelligence and cunning.
(b) its memory.
(c) its ability to destroy a large ship.
(d) its ability to stay for days under water.

3. How does Ishmael introduce the story of Moby Dick?
(a) by Ahab's description of the white whale.
(b) with stories of the dangerous white whale.
(c) by suggesting the white whale is a myth.
(d) in a dream he has about a white whale.

4. What is the conversation like at breakfast in the Spouter Inn?
(a) polite.
(b) chatty.
(c) silence.
(d) boisterous.

5. What type of whale are the men of the Pequod looking for?
(a) the octavo whale.
(b) the duodecimo whale.
(c) the albino whale.
(d) the sperm whale.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the plaques in the whaler's chapel remind Ishmael of?

2. Who are Peleg and Bildad?

3. What early shipboard duty does Ishmael describe?

4. What type of whale is Moby Dick, the whale they are searching for?

5. Who pilots the Pequod out of the Nantucket harbor?

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