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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ahab order the ship's blacksmith to do?
(a) make more lances to use on Moby Dick.
(b) make a cast iron coffin for him if Moby Dick is not found.
(c) forge an iron harpoon only for Moby Dick.
(d) reinforce the sides of the Pequod.

2. What is the next whaling ship the Pequod meets during the search for Moby Dick?
(a) The Bounty.
(b) The Delight.
(c) The Barbara Ellen.
(d) The Nantucket.

3. What does Ahab contemplate concerning the man who carves his peg leg and builds coffins?
(a) the unimportance of carpenters on a ship.
(b) the time they have been away from Nantucket.
(c) the versatility of sailors.
(d) the idea of life and death.

4. What is the carpenter ordered to do with Queequeg's coffin?
(a) dismantle it for fire wood.
(b) turn it into an oil cask.
(c) turn it into a life buoy.
(d) use it to patch up Ahab's boat.

5. What is the mood on the Pequod?
(a) high with anticipation.
(b) excited and tense.
(c) grim and somber.
(d) light and cheerful.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Stubb regain a dead whale from a French whaling boat?

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

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

4. What happens to the mast of the Pequod during a typhoon?

5. What does Queequeg see in the Spanish doubloon?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the evidence that there is still a vestige of humanity left in Ahab?

2. Describe the madness of Ahab that loses his humanity.

3. How does Starbuck try to take advantage of Ahab's tears?

4. What is the secret that Ishmael lets slip about why Ahab stayed in his cabin so long at the beginning of the trip?

5. What is foreshadowed by a dream on Ahab's whaling boat?

6. What is the change in the crew as they head out in search of Moby Dick?

7. What is occupying the mind of the captain of the Rachel?

8. After killing the sperm whale, why does Ahab want them to capture and kill the less valuable Right Whale?

9. What further insult does Ahab act out after meeting the Delight?

10. What is Ishmael trying to ascertain as he ponders fossil remains of whales he has read about?

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