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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ahab discover the next morning after the storm?
(a) the crew are all asleep after fighting the storm.
(b) the ship is dead in the water.
(c) the ship is going in the wrong direction.
(d) the ship has come aground.

2. What occurs on the Pequod that sends Starbuck to see the captain?
(a) someone is stealing from the crew's lockers.
(b) the rum ration has run out.
(c) there is a leak in one of the casks of whale oil.
(d) Moby Dick is sighted off the starboard side.

3. What does Queequeg see in the Spanish doubloon?
(a) nothing of any value.
(b) something to decorate his pipe.
(c) a pair of gold earrings.
(d) the price of a bride.

4. What is the next whaling ship the Pequod meets during the search for Moby Dick?
(a) The Delight.
(b) The Nantucket.
(c) The Bounty.
(d) The Barbara Ellen.

5. What is the first thing Moby Dick does when he is spotted?
(a) he swims away fast on the surface.
(b) he flukes and dives deep.
(c) he sounds and disappears under the sea.
(d) he swims toward the Pequod.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ahab finally admit?

2. What happens to the mast of the Pequod during a typhoon?

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

4. To what complaint does Ahab admit?

5. What is the second objection the Sag Harbor man has for the veracity of the story of Jonah?

Short Essay Questions

1. Relate the sad story of Pip.

2. What is the ominous message from the whaling ship Delight?

3. What is Ishmael trying to ascertain as he ponders fossil remains of whales he has read about?

4. What happens when Tashtego accidentally falls into the oil-filled head of the whale?

5. Describe the madness of Ahab that loses his humanity.

6. Describe Ishmael's arguments against the man who doubts the Bible.

7. Explain why the Pequod sails in the wrong direction.

8. What happens to Fedallah when Moby Dick is harpooned for the first time?

9. What is the evidence that there is still a vestige of humanity left in Ahab?

10. What further insult does Ahab act out after meeting the Delight?

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