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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 does Stubb get from the dead whale?
(a) the skull and teeth.
(b) a substance known as Ambergis.
(c) the bones in the mouth.
(d) the tail fins.

2. What accommodation is available for Ishmael at the inn in New Bedford?
(a) a shared room with a harpooner.
(b) a bench in the dining room.
(c) a closet.
(d) a bunk in a communal room.

3. How does Ishmael ultimately describe the whale?
(a) a spouting fish with a horizontal tail.
(b) a lumbering fish with a verticle tail.
(c) an elephant of the ocean.
(d) an elongated fish with big eyes.

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

5. What type of whale is Moby Dick, the whale they are searching for?
(a) a folio whale.
(b) an octavo whale.
(c) a Greenland whale.
(d) a duodecimo whale.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What has Ahab's vengeance done to him?

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. How does Ishmael classify the oiling of the bottom of a boat?

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