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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. What does Queequeg use to reach his food?
(a) a long stick.
(b) his harpoon.
(c) his long arms.
(d) a small lasso.

2. What type of whale is Moby Dick, the whale they are searching for?
(a) a folio whale.
(b) an octavo whale.
(c) a duodecimo whale.
(d) a Greenland whale.

3. What habit of whales do the whaling ships use to find their prey?
(a) the way they follow certain routes to new feeding areas.
(b) they way they always go to the same place to spawn.
(c) the way they head south in the winter.
(d) the way they spout when finding schools of fish.

4. What do the plaques in the whaler's chapel remind Ishmael of?
(a) the dangers of the sea.
(b) the heroism of whaling.
(c) the time away from land.
(d) the marks of distinction.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What early shipboard duty does Ishmael describe?

2. What does Ishmael think is more remarkable than the whale's size and color?

3. What is the speculation about Ahab's knowledge of the stowaways?

4. What is the rumor about other fish when they encounter the white whale?

5. Who is Charity and what is her function regarding the Pequod?

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