1 In the first stanza, what does the crew pull up from the ocean? A seal A drowned sailor A whale The flag of a sunken ship 2 Which of the following Greek mythological characters does not appear in the poem? Orpheus Odysseus Poseidon Achilles 3 Who says and repeats, "If God himself had not been on our side"? Jonas Messias The Leviathans The Quaker sailors The pilgrims walking to Walsingham 4 What make the speaker uneasy about the face of the Virgin Mary in Walsingham? Its paint is chipped It is expressionless It reminds him of someone from his past It is too beautiful 5 Which of the following characters does the speaker NOT address? Jonas Messias Poseidon The Sailor The Atlantic 6 In the last stanza, what does the speaker claim God made man from? Sea slime Clay from deep in the earth Marble His own flesh 7 Which creature, object, or element has claws in this poem? The white whale The wind The statue of the Virgin Mary The "upward angel" 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." danger mutability rainbow cruelty 10 What do the "lubbers" try to catch? Sea-gulls Blue-fish Whales Eels 11 What happens to the red flag in the poem? It is shaken down from the mast by thunder It becomes the last surviving remnant of the ship it sank with It appears in Walsingham 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 seems to be on the verge of tears She appears too small for the altar She sits near, not on, the altar She and God share secret knowledge 13 Which of the following is the Atlantic NOT "fouled" with? Blue sailors Heavy oil spills Fallen angels Ships 14 Which of the following do the sea-gulls NOT do, according to the speaker? Wail for water Land on the mast of the Pequod Tremble over Warren Winslow's death Circle over remains 15 What cries out in sympathy for the injured whale? The rattling crabs The wind The sea-gulls and terns The Quakers' bones 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 foolishness their determination their loyalty their bravery 18 What does the crew do with the body they pull up in the first stanza? They prepare a coffin so he can be taken to shore and properly buried They weigh him down and throw him back They have difficulty disentangling him from the net They search him for valuables 19 What two works does the phrase "the mast-lashed master of Leviathans" reference? The Odyssey and the Bible Moby-Dick and the Bible Moby-Dick and the Odyssey The Bible and Paradise Lost 20 What do the sea-gulls "wail" for? The Quakers The speaker's cousin Water The dying whale 21 What does the poem refer to as "open-eyed,/Wooden and childish"? The Quakers The statue of the Virgin Mary Time The faces of drowned soldiers 22 Which two characters does the speaker describe as having heavy eyelids? The Virgin Mary and the sea-gulls The sea-gulls and the terns The whale and the Virgin Mary Poseidon and the "blue-lung'd combers" 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 ash-pit of Jehoshaphat Out of God's sight In his side In the ocean 25 What type of tree "splatters and splatters on the cenotaph"? Evergreen Pine Maple Oak
