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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 58-60 | Chapter 61-63.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ishmael say whale ship crew members often do with the bones of whales?
(a) make stays for corsets.
(b) throw them overboard.
(c) carve animals.
(d) make ivory prostheses for men like Ahab.

2. Why does Ishmael advise against putting intellectual men on watch?
(a) they become easily bored.
(b) they ask too many questions.
(c) they analyze too much.
(d) they become engrossed in their own thoughts.

3. 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) Bildad's sister and part owner, she brings supplies.
(d) she supervises the storing of the supplies.

4. What habit of whales do the whaling ships use to find their prey?
(a) the way they spout when finding schools of fish.
(b) the way they head south in the winter.
(c) the way they follow certain routes to new feeding areas.
(d) they way they always go to the same place to spawn.

5. Why does Ishmael think Chapter 45 is the most important one in the book?
(a) because it describes behaviors of whales.
(b) because it deals with whale stories.
(c) because it describes Moby Dick in detail.
(d) because it discusses the pecularities of Ahab.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which boat from the Pequod is the first to harpoon a whale?

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

3. What do Ishmael and Stubb discuss about captains and whaling?

4. What do Peleg and Bildad do once the Pequod is in the Atlantic Ocean?

5. What purpose does the mad Elijah serve in the story?

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