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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Starbuck send Stubb to report the storm damage to Captain Ahab?
(a) for fear of what he might do to the captain if he goes back.
(b) because he is too busy saving the ship.
(c) because Stubb knows how to talk to the captain.
(d) to give Stubb a feeling of importance.

2. Why does Ishmael think Chapter 45 is the most important one in the book?
(a) because it describes Moby Dick in detail.
(b) because it discusses the pecularities of Ahab.
(c) because it deals with whale stories.
(d) because it describes behaviors of whales.

3. At the Try Pots Inn in Nantucket, what is the staple menu?
(a) bacon and eggs.
(b) ham and gravy.
(c) clam and cod chowder.
(d) fish and chips.

4. What makes Ahab return quickly to the Pequod from the Samuel Enderby?
(a) he has a fight with the other captain.
(b) he learns the direction Moby Dick is traveling.
(c) he begins to feel ill.
(d) he wants to beat the other captain to Moby Dick.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ishmael's objection to artist renditions of the whale?

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

3. How does Ishmael describe the possibility of mutiny on a whale ship?

4. What is Ishmael's evidence that sperm whales have knowingly and maliciously been destructive to men and their ships?

5. What is the speculation about Ahab's knowledge of the stowaways?

(see the answer key)

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