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Moby Dick Quiz: Test Your Knowledge

The document contains 27 multiple choice questions about the plot of Moby Dick, asking about key details like the narrator (Ishmael), characters (Captain Ahab, Queequeg), settings (Nantucket), events (the sinking of the Pequod), and the white whale, Moby Dick that obsessed Captain Ahab. It is assessing a reader's understanding of the classic novel by Herman Melville through a quiz format.

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Moby Dick Quiz: Test Your Knowledge

The document contains 27 multiple choice questions about the plot of Moby Dick, asking about key details like the narrator (Ishmael), characters (Captain Ahab, Queequeg), settings (Nantucket), events (the sinking of the Pequod), and the white whale, Moby Dick that obsessed Captain Ahab. It is assessing a reader's understanding of the classic novel by Herman Melville through a quiz format.

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Moby Dick – Check your understanding!

1. Who is the narrator of the novel? _______________

2. Where does Ishmael want to go to find a job on a whaling ship?


________________________

3. Where does Queequeg come from? _____________________

4. Who decided to hire both Queequeg and Ishmael? ________________

5. Who warned Queequeg and Ishmael about Captain Ahab before they
joined the whaling trip? ___________________

6. What is the specific name of Queequeg’s occupation? ______________

7. What is the name of Captain Ahab’s ship? _________________

8. From what is Ahab’s false leg made? ________________________

9. For what were whales primarily hunted? ______________________

10. Which of the characters falls overboard and goes insane as a result?
_____________

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

____________________________________________________

12. What is the colour of Moby Dick? ____________________________

13. Who noticed the leaking oil barrel and asked everyone to change them?

______________________

14. What made Queequeg fell extremely sick? ________________________

___________________________________________________________

15. What did Captain Ahab offer for the first person who sees a white whale
(Moby Dick)? _________________________________________
16. What makes Starbuck attempted to kill Captain Ahab when he was
sleeping? _____________________________________________

17. What is the name of Captain Ahab’s trusted crew who is believed to be
able to predict future? ____________________________

18. What are the predictions made by the person in Question 17?

i. ________________________________________________________

ii. ________________________________________________________

19. How old is Pip? __________________

20. Besides the characters already mentioned in this quiz, write another 4
crew on the ship.

i. _________________________

ii. ________________________

iii. ________________________

iv. ________________________

21. What is the name of Starbuck’s wife? _______________________

22. Captain Gardiner is the captain of _________________________

23. How did Fedallah die? ______________________________________

24. How long does the fight with Moby Dick lasted at the end of the story?

_________________________________________

25. How does the Pequod sink? ___________________________________

26. What keeps Ishmael afloat after the Pequod sinks? _________________

27. Who saved Ishmael at the end of the story? ______________________

That’s all. Good luck! 


Score: ___

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