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?
Orpheus

Odysseus

Achilles

Poseidon
3 Who says and repeats, "If God himself had not been on our side"?
The pilgrims walking to Walsingham

Jonas Messias

The Quaker sailors

The Leviathans
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?
The Atlantic

Jonas Messias

Poseidon

The Sailor
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 statue of the Virgin Mary

The "upward angel"

The white whale

The wind
8 Whom does the poem refer to as "IS"?
The speaker

Ishmael from Moby-Dick

God

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

danger

cruelty

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 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

It appears in Walsingham
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 and God share secret knowledge

She appears too small for the altar

She sits near, not on, the altar
13 Which of the following is the Atlantic NOT "fouled" with?
Ships

Heavy oil spills

Blue sailors

Fallen angels
14 Which of the following do the sea-gulls NOT do, according to the speaker?
Circle over remains

Tremble over Warren Winslow's death

Wail for water

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

The Quakers' bones

The rattling crabs

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

The corpse from the beginning of the poem

Cows

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 loyalty

their foolishness

their bravery

their determination
18 What does the crew do with the body they pull up in the first stanza?
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

They search him for valuables
19 What two works does the phrase "the mast-lashed master of Leviathans" reference?
Moby-Dick and the Odyssey

The Bible and Paradise Lost

The Odyssey and the Bible

Moby-Dick and the Bible
20 What do the sea-gulls "wail" for?
Water

The dying whale

The speaker's cousin

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

The faces of drowned soldiers

The statue of the Virgin Mary

Time
22 Which two characters does the speaker describe as having heavy eyelids?
Poseidon and the "blue-lung'd combers"

The sea-gulls and the terns

The whale and the Virgin Mary

The Virgin Mary and the sea-gulls
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

In the ocean

In his side

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

Oak

Evergreen

Pine

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