The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket Quizzes

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket Quiz

1 In the first stanza, what does the crew pull up from the ocean?
A seal

The flag of a sunken ship

A whale

A drowned sailor
2 Which of the following Greek mythological characters does not appear in the poem?
Achilles

Orpheus

Odysseus

Poseidon
3 Who says and repeats, "If God himself had not been on our side"?
The Quaker sailors

Jonas Messias

The pilgrims walking to Walsingham

The Leviathans
4 What make the speaker uneasy about the face of the Virgin Mary in Walsingham?
It reminds him of someone from his past

Its paint is chipped

It is too beautiful

It is expressionless
5 Which of the following characters does the speaker NOT address?
The Sailor

The Atlantic

Poseidon

Jonas Messias
6 In the last stanza, what does the speaker claim God made man from?
Sea slime

His own flesh

Marble

Clay from deep in the earth
7 Which creature, object, or element has claws in this poem?
The statue of the Virgin Mary

The "upward angel"

The wind

The white whale
8 Whom does the poem refer to as "IS"?
The whale

Ishmael from Moby-Dick

The speaker

God
9 "The Lord survives the ____ of his will."
rainbow

cruelty

danger

mutability
10 What do the "lubbers" try to catch?
Eels

Whales

Blue-fish

Sea-gulls
11 What happens to the red flag in the poem?
It appears in Walsingham

It is shaken down from the mast by thunder

It becomes the last surviving remnant of the ship it sank with

The speaker imagines himself tearing it down
12 Which of the following is untrue about the speaker's perception of the statue of the Virgin Mary?
She sits near, not on, the altar

She seems to be on the verge of tears

She and God share secret knowledge

She appears too small for the altar
13 Which of the following is the Atlantic NOT "fouled" with?
Ships

Blue sailors

Fallen angels

Heavy oil spills
14 Which of the following do the sea-gulls NOT do, according to the speaker?
Tremble over Warren Winslow's death

Land on the mast of the Pequod

Wail for water

Circle over remains
15 What cries out in sympathy for the injured whale?
The sea-gulls and terns

The wind

The rattling crabs

The Quakers' bones
16 To what does the speaker compare the pilgrims walking to Walsingham?
Cows

The injured whale

The corpse from the beginning of the poem

The Quakers
17 When the speaker says that the sailors of the Pequod were "Snatching at straws to sail," what is he trying to illustrate?
their determination

their bravery

their foolishness

their loyalty
18 What does the crew do with the body they pull up in the first stanza?
They search him for valuables

They have difficulty disentangling him from the net

They prepare a coffin so he can be taken to shore and properly buried

They weigh him down and throw him back
19 What two works does the phrase "the mast-lashed master of Leviathans" reference?
Moby-Dick and the Bible

Moby-Dick and the Odyssey

The Bible and Paradise Lost

The Odyssey and the Bible
20 What do the sea-gulls "wail" for?
The dying whale

Water

The speaker's cousin

The Quakers
21 What does the poem refer to as "open-eyed,/Wooden and childish"?
The Quakers

Time

The faces of drowned soldiers

The statue of the Virgin Mary
22 Which two characters does the speaker describe as having heavy eyelids?
Poseidon and the "blue-lung'd combers"

The whale and the Virgin Mary

The Virgin Mary and the sea-gulls

The sea-gulls and the terns
23 Generally, this poem criticizes those who attempt to dominate nature through whaling and other practices.

False

True
24 Where does the speaker beg Jonas Messias to hide "our steel"?
In the ash-pit of Jehoshaphat

In the ocean

Out of God's sight

In his side
25 What type of tree "splatters and splatters on the cenotaph"?
Oak

Evergreen

Pine

Maple

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