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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 Ishmael's objection to artist renditions of the whale?
(a) they are imaginary and not true to life.
(b) they are painted out of the water.
(c) they are pictured in false colors.
(d) they are too realistic.

2. What occurs on the Pequod that sends Starbuck to see the captain?
(a) someone is stealing from the crew's lockers.
(b) the rum ration has run out.
(c) Moby Dick is sighted off the starboard side.
(d) there is a leak in one of the casks of whale oil.

3. What is the irony of the coffin?
(a) a thing of death is so beautifully carved.
(b) a thing of death is being turned into a thing of life.
(c) a thing of death is an omen for the future.
(d) a thing of death is a visual reminder of Moby Dick.

4. What insane crew member of the Jeroboam claims to be the Angel Gabriel?
(a) a prophet of the Neskyeuna Shakers.
(b) a savage from the islands.
(c) another man named Starbuck.
(d) a defrocked priest.

5. How does Queequeg manage to sign on with the Pequod after first being turned down?
(a) agreeing to convert to Christianity.
(b) giving the owners shrunken heads.
(c) demonstrating his skill with the harpoon.
(d) offering to work for less pay.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do passing sailors say about the white whale?

3. Why does the captain of a whale ship the Pequod meets at sea not want to board the Pequod?

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

5. What happens to the two men who turn on Steelkilt and come out of the locked scuttle?

(see the answer key)

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