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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the carpenter doing when Ahab ascends to deck the next morning?
(a) turning the coffin into a life buoy.
(b) making a table for the captain.
(c) repairing holes in the deck.
(d) carving Ahab's new ivory leg.

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

3. What is Ahab thinking about as he looks out to sea?
(a) the fall in Nantucket.
(b) vacationing in Italy.
(c) home, family, and growing older.
(d) whether whales have families.

4. What had one of the boats from The Rachel accomplished?
(a) they harpooned Moby Dick.
(b) they spied Moby Dick.
(c) they escaped Moby Dick.
(d) they got all around Moby Dick.

5. What startles the crew as they prepare to go after a whale?
(a) five men they had not seen before.
(b) Captain Ahab without his ivory peg leg.
(c) whales completely surrounding the ship.
(d) a hole in the bottom of each whale boat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pip do when a whale is harpooned?

2. What does Ishmael think is more remarkable than the whale's size and color?

3. Why does Pip join on one of the whaling boats?

4. What is the rumor about other fish when they encounter the white whale?

5. How does Ishmael ultimately describe the whale?

(see the answer key)

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