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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Ishmael compare the weaving of a mat?
(a) complications.
(b) map making.
(c) life.
(d) whaling.

2. What does Ahab finally admit?
(a) that he has been wrong and should return home.
(b) that he is an inept captain.
(c) that Starbuck is right and he is wrong.
(d) that he cannot look at the bright side of things.

3. To what does Ishmael compare a painting done from observing a stranded whale?
(a) to a painting of a tiger seen in a cage.
(b) to a painting of a ship drawn from a shipwreck.
(c) to a painting of the moon.
(d) to a painting of a house from another culture.

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

5. What do passing sailors say about the white whale?
(a) they think it has returned to the Indian Ocean.
(b) they do not believe it exists.
(c) they heard it was caught and killed.
(d) they spotted it yesterday.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the irony of the coffin?

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

3. How does Stubb regain a dead whale from a French whaling boat?

4. How is Ahab's mental condition best described by this point?

5. What type of whale are the men of the Pequod looking for?

(see the answer key)

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