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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 49-50 | Chapter 51-53.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Charity and what is her function regarding the Pequod?
(a) Peleg's wife, she orders the food supplies.
(b) she brings Bibles and religious supplies.
(c) she supervises the storing of the supplies.
(d) Bildad's sister and part owner, she brings supplies.

3. What does Ishmael say is the saddest thing about any man, no matter how bad he is?
(a) a man who disobeys orders.
(b) a man who has lost his valor.
(c) a man who thinks he knows everything.
(d) a man who kills for sport.

4. How does Ishmael foreshadow Starbuck's behavior throughout the novel?
(a) He remains the valiant and moral person he first appears to be.
(b) He becomes fearful and mutinous.
(c) He changes into a madman.
(d) He loses all his moral values and tries to kill Ahab.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the Try Pots Inn in Nantucket, what is the staple menu?

2. After the first whaling experience, what does Ishmael decide to do?

3. What is Queequeg's amusing story about the ship captain attending a wedding in his father's court?

4. Where is Captain Ahab as the crew begins coming aboard the Pequod?

5. What is the conversation like at breakfast in the Spouter Inn?

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