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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Ahab's mental condition best described by this point?
(a) cheerful with expectation.
(b) much more optimistic.
(c) finally sane.
(d) truly morbid.

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

3. What startles the crew as they prepare to go after a whale?
(a) five men they had not seen before.
(b) a hole in the bottom of each whale boat.
(c) Captain Ahab without his ivory peg leg.
(d) whales completely surrounding the ship.

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

5. What reaction do both Ahab and Starbuck have to the Spanish doubloon still nailed to the mast?
(a) hope.
(b) sadness.
(c) eagerness.
(d) greed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the major problem while the whale is tied to the side of the ship?

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

3. What does Stubb get from the dead whale?

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

5. To what does Ishmael compare the weaving of a mat?

(see the answer key)

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