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 drowned sailor

A whale

The flag of a sunken ship

A seal
2 Which of the following Greek mythological characters does not appear in the poem?
Poseidon

Odysseus

Orpheus

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

The Leviathans

The pilgrims walking to Walsingham

Jonas Messias
4 What make the speaker uneasy about the face of the Virgin Mary in Walsingham?
It is too beautiful

It reminds him of someone from his past

Its paint is chipped

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

Jonas Messias

The Sailor

The Atlantic
6 In the last stanza, what does the speaker claim God made man from?
Marble

Clay from deep in the earth

Sea slime

His own flesh
7 Which creature, object, or element has claws in this poem?
The "upward angel"

The statue of the Virgin Mary

The wind

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

The speaker

Ishmael from Moby-Dick

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

rainbow

danger

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

Sea-gulls

Blue-fish

Whales
11 What happens to the red flag in the poem?
It appears in Walsingham

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

It is shaken down from the mast by thunder

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 appears too small for the altar

She sits near, not on, the altar

She and God share secret knowledge

She seems to be on the verge of tears
13 Which of the following is the Atlantic NOT "fouled" with?
Fallen angels

Blue sailors

Ships

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

Wail for water

Circle over remains

Land on the mast of the Pequod
15 What cries out in sympathy for the injured whale?
The sea-gulls and terns

The rattling crabs

The Quakers' bones

The wind
16 To what does the speaker compare the pilgrims walking to Walsingham?
Cows

The Quakers

The corpse from the beginning of the poem

The injured whale
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 loyalty

their bravery

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

They weigh him down and throw him back

They have difficulty disentangling him from the net

They prepare a coffin so he can be taken to shore and properly buried
19 What two works does the phrase "the mast-lashed master of Leviathans" reference?
The Bible and Paradise Lost

Moby-Dick and the Bible

The Odyssey and the Bible

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

The speaker's cousin

The Quakers

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

The Quakers

The statue of the Virgin Mary

The faces of drowned soldiers
22 Which two characters does the speaker describe as having heavy eyelids?
The whale and the Virgin Mary

Poseidon and the "blue-lung'd combers"

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.

True

False
24 Where does the speaker beg Jonas Messias to hide "our steel"?
In the ocean

In his side

In the ash-pit of Jehoshaphat

Out of God's sight
25 What type of tree "splatters and splatters on the cenotaph"?
Pine

Evergreen

Oak

Maple

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