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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 127.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the carpenter ordered to do with Queequeg's coffin?
(a) turn it into a life buoy.
(b) turn it into an oil cask.
(c) dismantle it for fire wood.
(d) use it to patch up Ahab's boat.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What apology does Ishmael make about whalers?

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

3. To what does Ishmael compare the weaving of a mat?

4. To what does Ishmael compare a painting done from observing a stranded whale?

5. What reaction do both Ahab and Starbuck have to the Spanish doubloon still nailed to the mast?

(see the answer key)

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