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?

The flag of a sunken ship

A seal

A whale

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

Achilles

Poseidon

Orpheus

Odysseus
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 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?

Jonas Messias

The Sailor

The Atlantic

Poseidon
6 In the last stanza, what does the speaker claim God made man from?

Marble

His own flesh

Sea slime

Clay from deep in the earth
7 Which creature, object, or element has claws in this poem?

The wind

The statue of the Virgin Mary

The white whale

The "upward angel"
8 Whom does the poem refer to as "IS"?

Ishmael from Moby-Dick

The speaker

The whale

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

danger

rainbow

cruelty

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

Blue-fish

Sea-gulls

Eels

Whales
11 What happens to the red flag in the poem?

It appears in Walsingham

The speaker imagines himself tearing it down

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

It is shaken down from the mast by thunder
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 seems to be on the verge of tears

She and God share secret knowledge
13 Which of the following is the Atlantic NOT "fouled" with?

Blue sailors

Ships

Fallen angels

Heavy oil spills
14 Which of the following do the sea-gulls NOT do, according to the speaker?

Wail for water

Tremble over Warren Winslow's death

Land on the mast of the Pequod

Circle over remains
15 What cries out in sympathy for the injured whale?

The wind

The Quakers' bones

The sea-gulls and terns

The rattling crabs
16 To what does the speaker compare the pilgrims walking to Walsingham?

The corpse from the beginning of the poem

The injured whale

Cows

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 loyalty

their bravery

their foolishness
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 have difficulty disentangling him from the net

They search him for valuables

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

The Bible and Paradise Lost

Moby-Dick and the Odyssey

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

The Quakers

The dying whale

Water

The speaker's cousin
21 What does the poem refer to as "open-eyed,/Wooden and childish"?

The faces of drowned soldiers

The statue of the Virgin Mary

Time

The Quakers
22 Which two characters does the speaker describe as having heavy eyelids?

Poseidon and the "blue-lung'd combers"

The Virgin Mary and the sea-gulls

The whale and the Virgin Mary

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 his side

In the ocean

Out of God's sight

In the ash-pit of Jehoshaphat
25 What type of tree "splatters and splatters on the cenotaph"?

Pine

Oak

Evergreen

Maple

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