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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 99 | Chapters 100-101.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Stubb instruct Daggoo to do for him?
(a) take over securing the whale to the ship.
(b) cut a steak from the tail of the whale.
(c) cut out a tooth from the whale.
(d) carve his name on the whale's back.

2. What does Ishmael say whale ship crew members often do with the bones of whales?
(a) make stays for corsets.
(b) make ivory prostheses for men like Ahab.
(c) carve animals.
(d) throw them overboard.

3. Why does Pip join on one of the whaling boats?
(a) because he begs to go along.
(b) because he angered Captain ahab.
(c) because he was sleeping in the boat.
(d) because one of the crew is injured.

4. What is the harpooner, Queequeg, out doing when Ishmael is shown to his room?
(a) smoking his pipe.
(b) sharpening his hatchet.
(c) shaving with his harpoon.
(d) selling a shrunken head.

5. What characteristics does Ishmael assign to Starbuck, the chief mate?
(a) elegance and sophistication.
(b) ignorance and brashness.
(c) impetuousness and anger.
(d) common sense and intelligence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ishmael's objection to artist renditions of the whale?

2. What does Ishmael say about why some captured whales float while others tend to sink?

3. What purpose does the mad Elijah serve in the story?

4. What do they find in the corpse of the blind and crippled whale?

5. What unusual thing does Queequeg do while putting on his boots?

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