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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 the second objection the Sag Harbor man has for the veracity of the story of Jonah?
(a) the throat of the whale could not swallow a man.
(b) there is no oxygen inside a whale's stomach.
(c) the whale would bite and not swallow whole.
(d) the gastric juices of the whale would have killed Jonah.

2. To what does Ishmael attribute the Sag Harbor man's disbelief in the story of Jonah?
(a) his listening to too many doubters.
(b) his minute education and inability to reason.
(c) his personal experience inside a whale.
(d) his custom of arguing with everyone.

3. What is peculiar about the deck where Ahab walks?
(a) It is slanted and easy to lose footing.
(b) It is double decked.
(c) It is covered with sharkskin.
(d) It has many dents made by Ahab's prosthesis.

4. At the Try Pots Inn in Nantucket, what is the staple menu?
(a) bacon and eggs.
(b) ham and gravy.
(c) clam and cod chowder.
(d) fish and chips.

5. What does Ishmael say the head of a sperm whale resembles?
(a) a Grecian urn.
(b) a boulder.
(c) a Roman chariot.
(d) the toe of a boot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pip do when a whale is harpooned?

2. What is Ishmael's evidence that sperm whales have knowingly and maliciously been destructive to men and their ships?

3. What is the theme of MOBY DICK?

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

5. Where is the large hunting ground where the Pequod finds itself in the middle of a pod of sperm whales?

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