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

2. What does Ahab contemplate concerning the man who carves his peg leg and builds coffins?
(a) the unimportance of carpenters on a ship.
(b) the time they have been away from Nantucket.
(c) the idea of life and death.
(d) the versatility of sailors.

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

4. Who are Peleg and Bildad?
(a) builders of the Pequod.
(b) crewmen on the Pequod.
(c) part owners of the Pequod.
(d) outfitters of the Pequod.

5. Where is Captain Ahab as the crew begins coming aboard the Pequod?
(a) in his cabin.
(b) still at home in his bedroom.
(c) bringing up the rear.
(d) standing on the deck.

Short Answer Questions

1. What apology does Ishmael make about whalers?

2. What does Starbuck contemplate when he finds Ahab asleep?

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

4. What happens to the boat Ishmael is in during the whale hunt?

5. To what does Ishmael compare a painting done from observing a stranded whale?

(see the answer key)

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