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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Stubb regain a dead whale from a French whaling boat?
(a) by using humor and intelligence.
(b) by playing poker.
(c) by stealing the dead whale at night.
(d) by threatening to blow up their boat.

2. What is the conversation like at breakfast in the Spouter Inn?
(a) boisterous.
(b) chatty.
(c) silence.
(d) polite.

3. What does Fedallah say about his own death?
(a) he will die of old age.
(b) he will die of fright.
(c) he will die on land.
(d) he will die before Ahab.

4. Why does Ishmael linger on the Biblical story of Jonah?
(a) because he remembers sermons about Jonah.
(b) because it explains a lot about whales.
(c) because some crewmen doubt the story.
(d) because he does not believe the Biblical account.

5. What does Stubb get from the dead whale?
(a) the tail fins.
(b) the skull and teeth.
(c) the bones in the mouth.
(d) a substance known as Ambergis.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is Captain Ahab as the crew begins coming aboard the Pequod?

3. How does Ishmael recognize newcomers to whaling on the streets of New Bedford?

4. What does Ahab order the ship's blacksmith to do?

5. What happens to Queequeg while he helps locate the oil leak?

(see the answer key)

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