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

A drowned sailor

The flag of a sunken ship

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

Achilles

Orpheus

Odysseus
3 Who says and repeats, "If God himself had not been on our side"?
The Leviathans

The pilgrims walking to Walsingham

Jonas Messias

The Quaker sailors
4 What make the speaker uneasy about the face of the Virgin Mary in Walsingham?
It is expressionless

It is too beautiful

Its paint is chipped

It reminds him of someone from his past
5 Which of the following characters does the speaker NOT address?
Poseidon

The Sailor

The Atlantic

Jonas Messias
6 In the last stanza, what does the speaker claim God made man from?
His own flesh

Sea slime

Clay from deep in the earth

Marble
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"?
Ishmael from Moby-Dick

God

The whale

The speaker
9 "The Lord survives the ____ of his will."
danger

mutability

rainbow

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

Whales

Sea-gulls

Blue-fish
11 What happens to the red flag in the poem?
It becomes the last surviving remnant of the ship it sank with

It is shaken down from the mast by thunder

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 and God share secret knowledge

She sits near, not on, the altar

She appears too small for the altar

She seems to be on the verge of tears
13 Which of the following is the Atlantic NOT "fouled" with?
Heavy oil spills

Ships

Fallen angels

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

Land on the mast of the Pequod

Wail for water

Tremble over Warren Winslow's death
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?
The corpse from the beginning of the poem

Cows

The injured whale

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

They have difficulty disentangling him from the net

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?
The Odyssey and the Bible

Moby-Dick and the Odyssey

Moby-Dick and the Bible

The Bible and Paradise Lost
20 What do the sea-gulls "wail" for?
Water

The speaker's cousin

The Quakers

The dying whale
21 What does the poem refer to as "open-eyed,/Wooden and childish"?
The statue of the Virgin Mary

The faces of drowned soldiers

The Quakers

Time
22 Which two characters does the speaker describe as having heavy eyelids?
The sea-gulls and the terns

The whale and the Virgin Mary

Poseidon and the "blue-lung'd combers"

The Virgin Mary and the sea-gulls
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

In the ash-pit of Jehoshaphat

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

Pine

Evergreen

Oak

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