MOBY DICK – OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS

1.      “Call me Ishmael” – this is  the opening line of ……….

2.      Who is the  narrator of the novel?

3.      Before becoming a Sailor, Ishmael was a …………..

4.      Who is the only survivor at the end of the novel?

5.      Moby Dick deals with………..

6.      the name of the ship on which Ishmael started his voyage is ………….

7.      The voyage of pequod started on ………

8.      Pequod was to undertake it’s voyage under the command of ………

9.      Who were owners of pequod?

10.  Ahab told the crews that any one who found the white whale will be given ………..

11.  The subtitle of Moby-Dick is ………..

12.  What is Gam?

13.  Who is nicknamed as King-post?

14.  Who is responsibility for the lose of Ahab’s one leg?

15.  Ahab had hidden five members of his private crew. Who was the head of the five?

16.  What is/are the prominent features of Moby-Dick?

17.  When Herman Melville explains about the monstrous picture of whales, he refers …….

18.  The most ancient extant portray of a whale is to be found in ………

19.  The name of the blacksmith on the pequod is …….

20.  Ishmael was rescued by the searching ship named ………

21.  Fedallah was a ……………

22.  The Pequod was…….. at the end of the novel.

23.  Sir Peter believed that his wife Lady Teazle had illicit love with ……..

24.  The owner of Souter Inn is ………

25.  In Spoute inn Ishmael shared his room with …………

26.  The name of ship pequod was derived from a well tribe of ……….

27.  The voyage was intended for at least………..

28.  Who was the chief mate among the three mates?

29.  The ship pequod was compared to ……….when it had sunk.

30.  Who wanted the carpenter to make a coffin for him when he was alive.

31.  In which inn does Ishmael stay while in New Bedford?

32.  Which character does Ishmael describe as “neither caterpillar not butterfly”?

33.  What is Ishmael’s reason for signing up for a whaling voyage?

34.  To which historical person does Ishmael compare Queequeg?

35.  What happens after Ahab kicks Stubb in the leg?

36.  Why is the hawk considered an ill omen?

37.  Write characters properly matched with his ethnicity?

38.  Which character chooses to rob the Rosebed of their whales for their ambergris?

39.  Which ship is a British whaling ship?

40.  Which character is the only survivor from the pequod?

41.  What is the importance of the color of the whale?

42.  What the terms does Ishmael use to describe Queequeg?

43.  Why does the Pequod pursue and kill a Right Whale?

44.  Which character leads a mutiny on his ship?

45.  Which character nearly dies when he falls into the whale’s tun?

46.  Who does Ishmael consider to be the first whaleman?

47.  Which character is described as having “drowned the infinite of his soul”?

48.  What does Ahab promise to whoever first spots Moby Dick?

49.  What reason does Queequeg give for his newfound good health?

50.  What is the significance of the epilogue?

51.  What is the significance of the picture in the Spouter Inn?

52.  From where does the Pequod first set sail?

53.  What is Ishmael’s opinion of Queequeg’s Ramadan?

54.  What little wooden idol does Queequeg worship?

55.  What is the pulpit of the Seaman’s Bethel shaped like in the book?

56.  Who are the owners of the pequod?

57.  Besides Starbuck, who are the other two mates?

58.  Who are Queequeg’s fellow harpooners?

59.  What other characters are black besides Dagoo?

60.  What is the first ship the pequod meets?

61.  Which leg of Ahab’s was lost to Moby?

62.  Who does Queequeg rescue from the head of a sperm whale?

63.  What does Stubb discover in the bowels of a killed whale?

64.  What was the French whaler the pequod visited?

65.  What unusual part of a whale’s anatomy is hauled up on the pequod?

66.  Where does the Samuel Enderby comes from?

67.  what does Ahab temper his new harpoon with?

68.  Which whaleship is looking for its captain’s lost son?

69.  What do Ahab and the crew see during a storm?

70.  Who first sees Moby Dick?

71.  After Moby Dick destroys the pequod and kills Ahab and the rest of the crew, what saves Ishmael?

72.  What was the ship that rescued Ishmael?

73.  Melville, like this character from his novel Typee jumped ship and lived with the cannibals.

74.  A one time school teacher, this sailor reasons that idol worship is in accord with the golden rule.

75.  “He was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal” who said?

76.  “He lived in the world as the last of the Grisly bears lived in settled Missouri”?

77.  He is pitiably respectable and intends no insolence, and yet he would prefer not”.

78.  This unblest foundling is a great artist wrapped in lofty schemes”.

79.  “He is cleanly cut as a Greek medallion and has silken jet curls and a foreign accent”.

80.  “He is blonde, with a rosy complexion, and looks like a statue of young Adam before the fall”.

81.  “This small, rude faced man in wide trousers asks, “From its skeleton, can you tell it is a white man’s?”

82.  What was Ahab’s false leg made of?

83.  What was the name of the ship that hunted The Whale to the end?

84.  Where did Ishmael and Queequeg share a room before their ship set sail?

85.  Who killed the first whale?

86.  How many survived the encounter with Moby Dick?

87.  The captain of The Rachel was searching for his lost son when he came upon a survivor. Who was rescued?

88.  Ishmael and Queequeg feasted on a warm Clam Chowder at which Restaurant?

89.  Melville wrote Moby Dick or The Whale in what year?

S. no	Answers
1.	Moby-Dick
2.	Ishmael
3.	School Master
4.	Ishmael
5.	Cetology (Study of whales)
6.	Pequod
7.	Christmas day
8.	Ahab
9.	Captain Bildad and Captain Peleg
10.	A gold coin (values 16 dollars)
11.	The White Whale
12.	Social meeting of two whaling ships
13.	Flasked, Starbuck
14.	The White Whale
15.	Fedallah
16.	He possessed a snow white wrinkled forehead
17.	Matse Avtar of Vishnu
18.	India
19.	Perth
20.	Rachel
21.	Parsee
22.	Sent to England
23.	Charles Surface
24.	Peter Coffin
25.	Queequeg
26.	Massachustts endian
27.	3 years
28.	Flask
29.	Satan
30.	Queequeg
31.	The Spouter
32.	Queequeg
33.	He thinks that going to sea provides fresh exercise
34.	George Washington
35.	Stubb has a strange dream about the incident.
36.	The hawk does not return Ahab’s hat.
37.	Fedallah: Persian, Daggoo: African, Tashtego: American Indian
38.	Starbuck
39.	The Samuel Enderby
40.	Ishmael
41.	It is not a colour, in fact, but is in fact the absence of colour.
42.	Agent
43.	It is good luck to have the head of a Right Whale and a sperm Whale on the sides of a ship.
44.	Gabriel
45.	Tashtego
46.	Perseus
47.	Pippin
48.	A Gold doubloon
49.	He makes up his mind to cure himself.
50.	It explains a seeming inconsistency in the narration.
51.	It illustrates a theme of the novel by blurring the line between the whale and the whaling boat.
52.	Nantucket
53.	He feels that it is nonsense and bad for health.
54.	Yojo
55.	A ship’s prow.
56.	Bildad and Peleg
57.	Stubb and Flask
58.	Daggo and Tashtego
59.	Pip and the cook
60.	Albatross
61.	Never specified.
62.	Tashtego
63.	Ambergris
64.	Rosebed
65.	Its penis
66.	England
67.	Blood
68.	The Rachel
69.	St. Elmo’s Fire
70.	Ahab
71.	Queequeg’s coffin
72.	Rachel
73.	Tommo
74.	Queequeg
75.	Queequeg
76.	Ahab
77.	Bartleby
78.	Bannadonna
79.	John Claggart
80.	Billy Budd
81.	Babo
82.	Whale Bone
83.	Pequod
84.	Spouter Inn
85.	Stubb
86.	1
87.	Ishmael
88.	The Try Pots
89.	1851