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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 119-126.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Starbuck send Stubb to report the storm damage to Captain Ahab?
(a) because he is too busy saving the ship.
(b) because Stubb knows how to talk to the captain.
(c) for fear of what he might do to the captain if he goes back.
(d) to give Stubb a feeling of importance.

2. What foreshadows what is likely to happen to Ahab and Fedallah?
(a) a dream Fedallah has while on Ahab's boat.
(b) a dream Ahab has while waiting out the night.
(c) a story Fedallah tells while on Ahab's boat.
(d) a story Ahab remembers about Moby Dick.

3. How does Ishmael describe the possibility of mutiny on a whale ship?
(a) he tells the story of Steelkilt and Radney.
(b) he tells the story of the Bounty.
(c) he tells the story of Sinbad and Ali.
(d) he tells the story of the Nautilus.

4. What is Ahab aware of while he stands on the deck of the Pequod?
(a) all the crew are fearful of him.
(b) exactly where all the holes are made for his peg leg.
(c) all the crew thinks he has lost his mind.
(d) all eyes look to see lest he fall or hold onto anything to steady himself.

5. What is Starbuck's disagreement with Ahab's purpose for the trip?
(a) the moral correctness of finding the white whale.
(b) the need to get oil and return to Nantucket quickly.
(c) the futility of vengeance against a whale.
(d) the missed opportunities to capture other whales.

Short Answer Questions

1. What strange thing does Ahab do looking at the head of the captured whale?

2. What do Ishmael and Stubb discuss about captains and whaling?

3. When the whale is harpooned, what action do the harpooner and the chief mate take?

4. What is the ship's carpenter assigned to do?

5. To what does Ishmael attribute the Sag Harbor man's disbelief in the story of Jonah?

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