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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of whale is Moby Dick, the whale they are searching for?
(a) a folio whale.
(b) a Greenland whale.
(c) a duodecimo whale.
(d) an octavo whale.

2. What startles the crew as they prepare to go after a whale?
(a) a hole in the bottom of each whale boat.
(b) five men they had not seen before.
(c) Captain Ahab without his ivory peg leg.
(d) whales completely surrounding the ship.

3. What does Ishmael recount about the Samuel Enderby that occurs many years later?
(a) he meets a sailor who remembers Captain Ahab.
(b) he has a fine social evening on board the ship.
(c) he hears that Moby Dick sank the ship.
(d) he learns how the Samuel Enderby ran aground.

4. Why does the captain of a whale ship the Pequod meets at sea not want to board the Pequod?
(a) he is jealous of the Pequod's catch.
(b) his crew is ill.
(c) he never leaves his own ship.
(d) he does not like Ahab.

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 walk the plank.
(d) they are hanged.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Ahab and the captain of the Samuel Enderby have in common?

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

3. Which ship does Ishmael select for him and Queequeg to sign on?

4. What is the speculation about the noise coming from the after hold?

5. How does Ahab become more irritated as the Pequod sails in the Pacific Ocean?

(see the answer key)

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