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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 99 | Chapters 100-101.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Ishmael's evidence that sperm whales have knowingly and maliciously been destructive to men and their ships?
(a) interviews with survivors of whale attacks.
(b) stories printed in British and American newspapers.
(c) his own experience with whales while he was at sea.
(d) other ships that have had bad encounters with whales.

2. What makes Ahab return quickly to the Pequod from the Samuel Enderby?
(a) he learns the direction Moby Dick is traveling.
(b) he has a fight with the other captain.
(c) he begins to feel ill.
(d) he wants to beat the other captain to Moby Dick.

3. What part of the whale is the most valuable to the whalers?
(a) the skin.
(b) the blubber.
(c) the ivory teeth and bones.
(d) the head and tail.

4. What does Pip do when a whale is harpooned?
(a) he jumps into the ocean.
(b) he hides in the bottom of the boat.
(c) he starts to cry.
(d) he hits the whale with his oar.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Charity and what is her function regarding the Pequod?

2. What unusual thing does Queequeg do while putting on his boots?

3. What is the name of the inn where Ishmael stays while waiting to go to Nantucket?

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

5. How does Stubb handle the strange situation?

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