2. To what does Ishmael compare a painting done from observing a stranded whale?
(a) to a painting of a house from another culture.
(b) to a painting of a ship drawn from a shipwreck.
(c) to a painting of the moon.
(d) to a painting of a tiger seen in a cage.

3. What is Ishmael's profession before signing on the whaling ship?
(a) schoolmaster.
(b) newspaper reporter.
(c) bank clerk.
(d) merchant marine.

4. What is Ishmael's objection to artist renditions of the whale?
(a) they are imaginary and not true to life.
(b) they are too realistic.
(c) they are painted out of the water.
(d) they are pictured in false colors.

5. How does Ishmael describe the whales he sees in the ocean?
(a) like huge rocks in the water.
(b) like big lumps of gray.
(c) like ships without sails.
(d) like big gray buses.

6. What does Ahab question the men about?
(a) their procedure when they spot a whale.
(b) their families back home.
(c) their willingness to sail for three years.
(d) their experience in whaling.

7. What insane crew member of the Jeroboam claims to be the Angel Gabriel?
(a) a savage from the islands.
(b) another man named Starbuck.
(c) a defrocked priest.
(d) a prophet of the Neskyeuna Shakers.

8. What is peculiar about the deck where Ahab walks?
(a) It is covered with sharkskin.
(b) It is double decked.
(c) It has many dents made by Ahab's prosthesis.
(d) It is slanted and easy to lose footing.

9. What characteristics does Ishmael assign to Starbuck, the chief mate?
(a) impetuousness and anger.
(b) elegance and sophistication.
(c) ignorance and brashness.
(d) common sense and intelligence.

10. What does Queequeg use to reach his food?
(a) his long arms.
(b) his harpoon.
(c) a small lasso.
(d) a long stick.

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

12. What is the man called who stands on deck and holds the rope that secures Queequeg?
(a) the anchor.
(b) the door post.
(c) the cowboy.
(d) the monkey.

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

14. Why does the captain of a whale ship the Pequod meets at sea not want to board the Pequod?
(a) his crew is ill.
(b) he does not like Ahab.
(c) he is jealous of the Pequod's catch.
(d) he never leaves his own ship.

15. Why does the rumor start that Moby Dick is stalking the Pequod?
(a) no large fish are spotted near the Pequod.
(b) a whale spout is seen at night every so often.
(c) a whale spout is seen only once every afternoon.
(d) something keeps bumping the Pequod.