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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 127.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Queequeg see in the Spanish doubloon?
(a) the price of a bride.
(b) a pair of gold earrings.
(c) nothing of any value.
(d) something to decorate his pipe.

2. What is the name of Queequeg's small, carved idol?
(a) Mojo.
(b) Yojo.
(c) Sojo.
(d) Jojo.

3. What happens to the two men who turn on Steelkilt and come out of the locked scuttle?
(a) they receive pardons.
(b) they are hanged.
(c) they walk the plank.
(d) they are flogged.

4. What is the speculation about Ahab's knowledge of the stowaways?
(a) that he knows why they are there.
(b) that he is aware of them.
(c) that he will have them thrown overboard.
(d) that he is playing a game with them.

5. What do Peleg and Bildad do once the Pequod is in the Atlantic Ocean?
(a) jump overboard and swim to shore.
(b) go wake up Captain Ahab.
(c) leave the Pequod on a raft.
(d) return to shore in a small boat.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Ishmael digress after the first whales are spotted?

3. How does Ishmael introduce the story of Moby Dick?

4. What does the captain of a German whaling ship want from the Pequod?

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

(see the answer key)

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