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Moby-Dick

Herman Melville

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1. Where does Ishmael want to go to find a berth on a whaling ship?

(A) Boston

(B) Nantucket

(D) New York

2. Which biblical figure is the focus of Father Mapple's sermon?

(A) Job

(B) Solomon

(D) Jonah

3. Which body part has Ahab lost to Moby Dick?

(A) His leg

(B) His arm

(D) His fingers

4. What is the name of Ahab's ship?

(A) The Town-Ho

(B) The Rachel

(D) The Pequod

5. After what is Ahab's ship named?

(A) Its owner

(B) A vanished tribe of Native Americans

(D) A biblical character

6. For what were whales primarily hunted?

(A) Oil

(B) Skin

(D) Fins

7. Which of the following characters falls overboard and goes insane as a result?

(A) Tashtego

(B) Pip

(D) Starbuck

8. Who rescues Tashtego when he falls overboard inside the whale's head?

(A) Ishmael

(B) Stubb

(D) Queequeg

9. What does Ahab nail to the ship's mast to motivate his crew in his quest for Moby Dick?

(A) A gold coin

(B) A severed head

(D) A pirate flag

10. Which of the following characters survives the Pequod's sinking?

(A) Pip

(B) Ahab

(D) None of the above

11. What keeps Ishmael afloat after the Pequod sinks?

(A) A coffin

(B) A barrel of oil

(D) A mattress

12. What does the crew look for to indicate the presence of a whale?

(A) Fins

(B) Spouts

(D) Lightning

13. What frightens Ishmael the most about Moby Dick?

(A) The whale's size

(B) The whale's teeth

(D) The sounds that the whale makes

14. What is cetology?

(A) The skill of navigation

(B) The study of old manuscripts

(D) The study of whales

15. What covers Queequeg's skin?

(A) Scars

(B) Tattoos

(D) Blisters

16. What does Ishmael have tattooed on his forearm?

(A) A naked woman

(B) A spouting whale

(D) A passage from the Book of Job

17. With what is the Pequod adorned?

(A) Sperm whale teeth

(B) American flags

(D) Whale fins

18. From what is Ahab's false leg made?

(A) A whale's jawbone

(B) Wood

(D) Leather

19. With which of the following characters does Ishmael share a bed at the Spouter-Inn?

(A) Starbuck

(B) Fedallah

(D) Queequeg

20. Out of what is Fedallah's turban made?

(A) Whale skin

(B) His hair

(D) Dried seaweed

21. How does the Pequod sink?

(A) She is rammed by Moby Dick.

(B) She is overloaded with oil.

(D) She is rammed by another ship.

22. Who owns the Pequod?

(A) Father Mapple

(B) Captain Ahab

(D) Bildad and Peleg

23. With what does Queequeg sleep?

(A) The statue of his god

(B) His harpoon

(D) A bottle of rum

24. Ahab's mates include

(A) Starbuck

(B) Stubb

(D) All of the above

25. What does Ahab see when he studies the gold doubloon nailed to the mast?

(A) Moby Dick

(B) Himself

(D) The face of Evil

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