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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Ishmael's profession before signing on the whaling ship?
(a) merchant marine.
(b) schoolmaster.
(c) bank clerk.
(d) newspaper reporter.

2. Who is the High Chief or king of the island of Kokovoko?
(a) Queequeg's father.
(b) Queequeg's brother.
(c) Queequeg.
(d) Quequeg's uncle.

3. What happens to the two men who turn on Steelkilt and come out of the locked scuttle?
(a) they are hanged.
(b) they are flogged.
(c) they receive pardons.
(d) they walk the plank.

4. How does Ishmael describe the possibility of mutiny on a whale ship?
(a) he tells the story of Steelkilt and Radney.
(b) he tells the story of the Bounty.
(c) he tells the story of the Nautilus.
(d) he tells the story of Sinbad and Ali.

5. What is the name of Queequeg's small, carved idol?
(a) Jojo.
(b) Sojo.
(c) Yojo.
(d) Mojo.

6. What is the major problem while the whale is tied to the side of the ship?
(a) changing the direction of the ship.
(b) balancing the ship.
(c) keeping the ropes from breaking.
(d) keeping the sharks away.

7. What is Ishmael's religious affiliation?
(a) Quaker.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Presbyterian.
(d) Methodist.

8. Who are Peleg and Bildad?
(a) outfitters of the Pequod.
(b) part owners of the Pequod.
(c) builders of the Pequod.
(d) crewmen on the Pequod.

9. Days into the journey, what makes Ishmael uneasy?
(a) He decides he has made a mistake.
(b) He has started to have seasickness.
(c) He has not yet seen the captain.
(d) He never sees Queequeg again.

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

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

12. What is Queequeg's duty while the blubber is stripped from the back of the whale?
(a) he descends to hold it secure.
(b) he takes the watch for more whales.
(c) he carves the teeth from the whale.
(d) he carries equipment to the other crew members.

13. What is the harpooner, Queequeg, out doing when Ishmael is shown to his room?
(a) smoking his pipe.
(b) sharpening his hatchet.
(c) selling a shrunken head.
(d) shaving with his harpoon.

14. How does Stubb handle the strange situation?
(a) by writing in a diary.
(b) with his sense of humor.
(c) with a great deal of tension.
(d) by not thinking about it.

15. What is the subject matter of the sermon in the chapel?
(a) the creation of sea creatures.
(b) Jonah and the whale.
(c) preparing for death.
(d) Balam and the ass.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Stubb instruct Daggoo to do for him?

2. Who pilots the Pequod out of the Nantucket harbor?

3. Why does the rumor start that Moby Dick is stalking the Pequod?

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

5. What habit of whales do the whaling ships use to find their prey?

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