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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. Which boat from the Pequod is the first to harpoon a whale?
(a) Starbuck's.
(b) Flask's.
(c) Stubb's.
(d) Ahab's.

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

3. How does Stubb convince the French ship to leave?
(a) by showing them the Pequod's mark on the whale.
(b) by convincing them the dead whale will make them sick.
(c) by letting them smell the rotting flesh of the whale.
(d) by telling them where to find live whales.

4. What do Ahab and the captain of the Samuel Enderby have in common?
(a) they are both insane.
(b) they are both looking for information about Moby Dick.
(c) they both lost a limb to Moby Dick.
(d) they are both looking for revenge against Moby Dick.

5. To what does Ishmael attribute the Sag Harbor man's disbelief in the story of Jonah?
(a) his custom of arguing with everyone.
(b) his personal experience inside a whale.
(c) his minute education and inability to reason.
(d) his listening to too many doubters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Flask see as he examines the doubloon?

2. What does the captain of a German whaling ship want from the Pequod?

3. Why does the rumor start that Moby Dick is stalking the Pequod?

4. How does Ishmael describe the whales he sees in the ocean?

5. What is peculiar about the deck where Ahab walks?

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