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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 119-126.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 hits the whale with his oar.
(d) he starts to cry.

2. What is Ishmael's objection to artist renditions of the whale?
(a) they are pictured in false colors.
(b) they are painted out of the water.
(c) they are imaginary and not true to life.
(d) they are too realistic.

3. Which boat from the Pequod is the first to harpoon a whale?
(a) Stubb's.
(b) Ahab's.
(c) Flask's.
(d) Starbuck's.

4. 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.

5. What insane crew member of the Jeroboam claims to be the Angel Gabriel?
(a) another man named Starbuck.
(b) a defrocked priest.
(c) a savage from the islands.
(d) a prophet of the Neskyeuna Shakers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ishmael believe about the survival of whales as a species?

3. What happens to the harpoon especially made for Moby Dick?

4. Why does Ishmael think Chapter 45 is the most important one in the book?

5. How does Ahab react to the intrusion by Starbuck?

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