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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 116-118.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What foreshadows what is likely to happen to Ahab and Fedallah?
(a) a dream Fedallah has while on Ahab's boat.
(b) a story Fedallah tells while on Ahab's boat.
(c) a dream Ahab has while waiting out the night.
(d) a story Ahab remembers about Moby Dick.

2. What is Starbuck's disagreement with Ahab's purpose for the trip?
(a) the missed opportunities to capture other whales.
(b) the need to get oil and return to Nantucket quickly.
(c) the moral correctness of finding the white whale.
(d) the futility of vengeance against a whale.

3. What equipment left on board by Aunt Charity does Stubb throw overboard?
(a) a still for making rum.
(b) a teapot.
(c) a caddy for ginger water.
(d) a barrel of lemonade.

4. Why does Ahab insist that the captain of the Jeroboam come aboard the Pequod?
(a) to have him check the Pequod's charts.
(b) to have dinner with him.
(c) to get news of Moby Dick.
(d) to give him medical supplies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fedallah say about his own death?

2. What odd behavior on the part of Ahab occurs over the apparatus used for determining latitude?

3. What is Queequeg's duty while the blubber is stripped from the back of the whale?

4. What is peculiar about the deck where Ahab walks?

5. What does Fedallah's dream depict about hearses?

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