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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) something to decorate his pipe.
(c) nothing of any value.
(d) a pair of gold earrings.

2. What do they find in the corpse of the blind and crippled whale?
(a) a harpoon and cord and a stone lance.
(b) timbers from a whaling boat.
(c) the remains of a man.
(d) an unborn whale.

3. What occurs on the Pequod that sends Starbuck to see the captain?
(a) someone is stealing from the crew's lockers.
(b) there is a leak in one of the casks of whale oil.
(c) Moby Dick is sighted off the starboard side.
(d) the rum ration has run out.

4. What does Ahab order the ship's blacksmith to do?
(a) reinforce the sides of the Pequod.
(b) make a cast iron coffin for him if Moby Dick is not found.
(c) make more lances to use on Moby Dick.
(d) forge an iron harpoon only for Moby Dick.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Flask see as he examines the doubloon?

2. To what does Ishmael compare a painting done from observing a stranded whale?

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

4. What is the second objection the Sag Harbor man has for the veracity of the story of Jonah?

5. What happens to the boat Ishmael is in during the whale hunt?

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