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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 133.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Ahab's mental condition best described by this point?
(a) finally sane.
(b) cheerful with expectation.
(c) much more optimistic.
(d) truly morbid.

2. What happens to the boat Ishmael is in during the whale hunt?
(a) the boat takes on water and sinks.
(b) it gets stuck on the back of a whale.
(c) the whale they harpoon takes a bite out of the boat.
(d) it capsizes and all are thrown into the water.

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

4. What does Ishmael recount about the Samuel Enderby that occurs many years later?
(a) he learns how the Samuel Enderby ran aground.
(b) he has a fine social evening on board the ship.
(c) he hears that Moby Dick sank the ship.
(d) he meets a sailor who remembers Captain Ahab.

5. What does Ahab do in an excited state after visiting the Samuel Enderby?
(a) goes to his cabin to sulk.
(b) dances a jig on the Pequod.
(c) passes out rum to the crew.
(d) twists and damages his ivory peg leg.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the mood on the Pequod?

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

3. What is the irony of the coffin?

4. Why does Ishmael linger on the Biblical story of Jonah?

5. What foreshadows what is likely to happen to Ahab and Fedallah?

(see the answer key)

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