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 whale

A seal

A drowned sailor

The flag of a sunken ship
2 Which of the following Greek mythological characters does not appear in the poem?
Poseidon

Orpheus

Achilles

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?
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?
Clay from deep in the earth

Marble

Sea slime

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

The "upward angel"

The white whale

The statue of the Virgin Mary
8 Whom does the poem refer to as "IS"?
Ishmael from Moby-Dick

The whale

God

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

danger

rainbow

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

Sea-gulls

Eels

Blue-fish
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 sits near, not on, the altar

She and God share secret knowledge

She seems to be on the verge of tears

She appears too small for the altar
13 Which of the following is the Atlantic NOT "fouled" with?
Fallen angels

Heavy oil spills

Blue sailors

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 sea-gulls and terns

The rattling crabs

The wind

The Quakers' bones
16 To what does the speaker compare the pilgrims walking to Walsingham?
Cows

The injured whale

The corpse from the beginning of the poem

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 foolishness

their loyalty

their bravery
18 What does the crew do with the body they pull up in the first stanza?
They weigh him down and throw him back

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

The Odyssey and the Bible

Moby-Dick and the Bible

The Bible and Paradise Lost
20 What do the sea-gulls "wail" for?
The speaker's cousin

The Quakers

Water

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

The faces of drowned soldiers

The statue of the Virgin Mary

The Quakers
22 Which two characters does the speaker describe as having heavy eyelids?
The whale and the Virgin Mary

The sea-gulls and the terns

The Virgin Mary and the sea-gulls

Poseidon and the "blue-lung'd combers"
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 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"?
Oak

Maple

Pine

Evergreen

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