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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 subject matter of the sermon in the chapel?
(a) the creation of sea creatures.
(b) Jonah and the whale.
(c) Balam and the ass.
(d) preparing for death.

2. What type of whale is Moby Dick, the whale they are searching for?
(a) an octavo whale.
(b) a Greenland whale.
(c) a folio whale.
(d) a duodecimo whale.

3. 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 describes behaviors of whales.
(c) because it deals with whale stories.
(d) because it discusses the pecularities of Ahab.

4. What is the carpenter ordered to do with Queequeg's coffin?
(a) dismantle it for fire wood.
(b) turn it into a life buoy.
(c) use it to patch up Ahab's boat.
(d) turn it into an oil cask.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ahab order the ship's blacksmith to do?

2. Why does Starbuck send Stubb to report the storm damage to Captain Ahab?

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

4. What do the plaques in the whaler's chapel remind Ishmael of?

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

(see the answer key)

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