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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the mast of the Pequod during a typhoon?
(a) it glows in the dark.
(b) it breaks in two.
(c) it loses all its sails.
(d) it catches on fire.

2. What does Starbuck contemplate when he finds Ahab asleep?
(a) locking up the captain.
(b) murdering the captain.
(c) scaring the captain.
(d) waking the captain.

3. What is the speculation about the noise coming from the after hold?
(a) There is live bait in the hold.
(b) There are ghosts on the Pequod.
(c) Moby Dick is sniffing out Captain Ahab.
(d) There are stowaways on board.

4. Who is Charity and what is her function regarding the Pequod?
(a) Peleg's wife, she orders the food supplies.
(b) she supervises the storing of the supplies.
(c) she brings Bibles and religious supplies.
(d) Bildad's sister and part owner, she brings supplies.

5. What does the captain of a German whaling ship want from the Pequod?
(a) sailcloth.
(b) directions.
(c) coffee.
(d) lamp oil.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ishmael recognize newcomers to whaling on the streets of New Bedford?

2. What happens to the two men who turn on Steelkilt and come out of the locked scuttle?

3. Why does Pip join on one of the whaling boats?

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

5. What does Ahab contemplate concerning the man who carves his peg leg and builds coffins?

(see the answer key)

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