Do You Know Moby Dick?

  1. Developed by: William Bang

Ok, Master of literature. Let's see how good you are. Try out this multiple choice Moby Dick Test to see what you know?

Question 1: What is the narrator's name?
Islam
Queeqeeg
Ishmael
Moby Dick
Ahab

Question 2: What is the name of the ship
Pacron
Pequod
Rosemont
Rasqual
Rachael

Question 3: Who is the captain of the ship?
Ahab
Flask
Ishmael
Starbuck
Stubb

Question 4: Who is the first mate?
Stubb
Starbuck
Ahab
Ishmael
Flask

Question 5: Who is the narrator's best friend?
Ahab
Pip
Ishmael
Queeqeeg
Tarange

Question 6: What color is the whale they are looking for?
gray
yellow
blue
black
white

Question 7: At one point, one of the characters is knocked into the sea and almost dies floating back to the main boat. Who was it?
Ishmael
Ahab
Stubb
Queeqeeg
Pip

Question 8: What is the name of the Inn Keeper at the beginning of the novel?
Alexander Dumphries
Peter Coffin
William McCallister
He did not have a name!
Ned Hyde

Question 9: What does Ahab offer as reward for spotting the whale first?
Whiskey
2 weeks shore leave
Steak
18 dollars
Dubloon

Question 10: In discussing the whale, Ahab says, "Be the whale (blank or blank), I will wreck my hate upon him" Fill in the blanks
providence or happenstance
agent or principle
god or devil
living or dead
high or low

Question 11: How does the novel end?
They can't find the whale, and return to port
They kill the whale after a two day struggle
They kill the whale after a three day struggle
The ship runs aground
Everyone dies except Ishmael

Question 12: What is the name of the Indian Harpooner?
Queeqeeg
Swimming Elk
Denbogo
Tashego
Chingachgook

Question 13: Who is Moby Dick?
The Ship
A Legendary Sailor
The Whale
Ahab
Ishmael

Question 14: What does Queeqeeg sell?
Human heads
Gun powder
Snakes
Whale testicles
voodoo dolls

Question 15: What is Ahab's physical deformity?
Missing an eye
One leg
One arm
Missing his teeth
Hunchback

Question 16: What does Stubbs really like to do?
Tell dirty jokes
Drink wine
Dance
Eat beefsteaks
Smoke a pipe

Question 17: To whom did Herman Melville dedicate Moby Dick?
James Fennimore Cooper
Walt Whittman
Arthur Miller
Oscar Wilde
Nathanial Hawthorne

Question 18: What is the most prized product gotten from the whales?
blubber oil
anaphlaxsis
whale tongue
spermacetti
amborugris

Question 19: From what town does the actual voyage begin?
Quohog
Boston
Nantucket
Martha's Vineyard
New Bedford

Question 20: In the end, what is the point of Moby Dick? (I don't care if you have a differing opinion, just pick one)
nihlism vs. post-modern abtractionisms
Man vs. Nature(This one is wrong)
Religious vision vs. secular vision
Man vs. whale
Good vs. Evil (This one is wrong)

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