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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the conversation like at breakfast in the Spouter Inn?
(a) silence.
(b) boisterous.
(c) polite.
(d) chatty.

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

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

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

5. Which ship does Ishmael select for him and Queequeg to sign on?
(a) the Devil-dam.
(b) the Pequod.
(c) the Titanic.
(d) the Tit-bit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What early shipboard duty does Ishmael describe?

2. What does Queequeg see in the Spanish doubloon?

3. What purpose does the mad Elijah serve in the story?

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

5. What do Ahab and the captain of the Samuel Enderby have in common?

(see the answer key)

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