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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 is peculiar about the deck where Ahab walks?
(a) It is double decked.
(b) It is slanted and easy to lose footing.
(c) It is covered with sharkskin.
(d) It has many dents made by Ahab's prosthesis.

2. What odd behavior on the part of Ahab occurs over the apparatus used for determining latitude?
(a) Ahab orders it taken to the top of the mast.
(b) Ahab uses it to throw at a whale.
(c) Ahab dashes it against the deck of the ship.
(d) Ahab throws it overboard.

3. 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 story Ahab remembers about Moby Dick.
(d) a dream Ahab has while waiting out the night.

4. What has Ahab's vengeance done to him?
(a) He has lost his appetite.
(b) He finds no pleasure in life.
(c) He cannot sleep at night.
(d) His hair has turned white.

5. What does Fedallah's dream depict about hearses?
(a) Ahab will see one not made with human hands.
(b) Ahab will be saved by a hearse.
(c) Ahab will never ride in a hearse.
(d) Ahab will ride in a wooden hearse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the man called who stands on deck and holds the rope that secures Queequeg?

2. What does Ahab question the men about?

3. How does Stubb handle the strange situation?

4. What do the men do for entertainment on board the Pequod?

5. Why does Ahab's boat stay in the ocean and not return after they catch four whales?

(see the answer key)

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