In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex Quizzes

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex Quiz 1

1 How old was Thomas Nickerson when he first boarded the Essex?
14

12

20

15
2 Who was Thomas Nickerson raised by?
His grandparents

His mother

His father

His parents
3 How many orphans were aboard the Essex?
2

1

4

3
4 Who was the captain of the Essex?
Matthew Joy

Owen Chase

Thomas Nickerson

George Pollard Jr.
5 Who was the first mate of the Essex?
Benjamin Lawrence

Thomas Nickerson

Isaac Cole

Owen Chase
6 Who was the second mate of the Essex?
There is no such position

George Pollard Jr.

Thomas Nickerson

Matthew Joy
7 What was the first land that the Essex touched on their voyage?
The Azores

Cape Horn

Cape Verde

Chile
8 What animal boarded the ship at Cape Verde?
Tortoises

Hogs

Rabbits

Worms
9 What else boarded the ship at Cape Verde?
Slaves

An extra whaleboat

Ambergris

Freshwater
10 Why did the crew of the Essex grow excited when they saw a shipwreck at Cape Verde?
They could steal the oil aboard the ship

They needed more whaleboats and thought there might be some there

The price of oil was increasing

They had outdone at least one other ship
11 Why did the ship have a 'knockdown'?
The captain ordered the crew to shorten sail far too late

The squall hit the ship at the worst possible angle

They thought they could ride out the storm

All of the above
12 Where did they head after the knockdown?
Chile

The Azores

Back to Nantucket

Cape Verde
13 What did the men enjoy doing at Cape Horn?
Reading newspapers

Talking to locals

Reading letters from home

Eating exotic fruits
14 What is Cape Horn?
The southern-most tip of South America

An extremely dangerous passage for ships

Part of Chile

All of the above
15 What is a fiery leader called?
A mean captain

A fishy man

A lover of the sea

A jerk
16 What did the men do with their meat halfway through the voyage?
They refused to eat it unless they got bigger provisions

They threw it up

They threw it overboard

They made beef tar-tar from it
17 When the lookout first yelled "Land ho!", what was there?
Chile

Cape Verde

A fog bank

Azores
18 What was the condition of the Essex to begin with?
State of the art

20 years of structural deterioration

Brand new

Recently repaired
19 From where do the sailors attack the whales?
The ship's masts

Below deck

The ship's deck

whaleboats
20 When does the whale die?
Not until the oil is extracted

In the sea

It does not die, they release it back into the sea once they extract the oil

On deck
21 What object is used to kill the whale?
Harpoon

Pure exhaustion

Rope

The killing lance
22 Who does the killing?
The boatsteerer

The mate

Anybody can

The cabin boy
23 What precious substance is found within the intestinal tract?
Pollard

Ambergris

Gale

Hypernatremia
24 What is a gale?
A blast of wind

A type of whale

A massive wave

A storm
25 What whales did Nantucketers first hunt?
Killer whales

Orcas

Wrong whales

Right whales

Why did Nickerson think that Chase refused to return to Nantucket in Chapter 2?

Nickerson thought that Chase's decision was based upon the fact that is they headed back to Nantucket, a significant number of the crew would jump ship.

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what role does greed play in the disaster of the essex

"One naval arcitect's calculations project that if the Essex had been a new ship, her oak planking would have withstood even this tremendous blow. Since the whale did punch a hole in the bow, the Essex's twenty-one-year-old planking must have...

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