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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the irony of the coffin?
(a) a thing of death is being turned into a thing of life.
(b) a thing of death is a visual reminder of Moby Dick.
(c) a thing of death is so beautifully carved.
(d) a thing of death is an omen for the future.

4. What does Ishmael say about why some captured whales float while others tend to sink?
(a) some whales have more solid bones.
(b) some whales take in more air.
(c) the reason is unknown.
(d) the reason has to do with size.

5. Why does Elijah challenge Ishmael to find the men he saw heading for the Pequod?
(a) they are criminals sabotaging the Pequod.
(b) they are ghosts and not real men.
(c) they are figments of Ishmael's imagination.
(d) they will not board with Captain Ahab.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Queequeg use to reach his food?

2. Why does Ahab insist that the captain of the Jeroboam come aboard the Pequod?

3. Why does the captain of a whale ship the Pequod meets at sea not want to board the Pequod?

4. Why does Ishmael think Chapter 45 is the most important one in the book?

5. Why does Pip join on one of the whaling boats?

(see the answer key)

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