1. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on ______ ?
A: ) Captain Ahab
B: ) Moby Dick
C: ) Captain Boomer
D: ) Queenqueg
springline- Correct option: B:) Moby Dick
2. Moby-Dick was published to mixed reviews, was a commercial failure, and was out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891. Its reputation as a ‘Great American Novel‘ was established only in the 20th century, after the centennial of its author's birth . Who said he wished he had written the book himself?
A: ) William Faulkner
B: ) Richard Bentley
C: ) Walter Bezanson
D: ) Lawrence Buell
springline- Correct option: A:) William Faulkner
3. Moby-Dick : Its opening sentence, ‘Call me Ishmael’, is among world literature's most famous. Who called it ‘one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world’ and ‘the greatest book of the sea ever written’?
A: ) Charles Lamb
B: ) T.S. Eliot
C: ) D.H. Lawrence
D: ) Robert Frost
springline- Correct option: C:) D.H. Lawrence
4. Moby-Dick : The white whale is modeled on the notoriously hard-to-catch albino whale Mocha Dick, and the book's ending is based on the sinking of the Whaleship Essex in ________?
A: ) 1820
B: ) 1821
C: ) 1822
D: ) 1823
springline- Correct option: A:) 1820
5. Melville began writing Moby-Dick in February 1850, and finished 18 months later, a year longer than he had anticipated. Melville drew on his experience as a common sailor from 1841 to 1844, including several years on whalers, and on wide reading in ______?
A: ) Hunting Stories
B: ) Fiction
C: ) Adventure literature
D: ) whaling literature
springline- Correct option: D:) whaling literature
6. The detailed and realistic descriptions of whale hunting and of extracting whale oil, as well as life aboard ship among a culturally diverse crew, are mixed with exploration of class and social status, good and evil, and the existence of God. Melville’s literary influences include the Bible and____?
A: ) Shakespeare
B: ) Chaucer
C: ) Mark Twain
D: ) John Dryden
springline- Correct option: A:) Shakespeare
7. In August 1850, with the manuscript perhaps half finished, he met Nathaniel Hawthorne and was deeply moved by his Mosses from an Old Manse, which he compared to Shakespeare in its cosmic ambitions. This encounter may have inspired him to revise and expand Moby-Dick, which is dedicated to _____?
A: ) Richard Bentley
B: ) Shakespeare
C: ) Hawthorne
D: ) Carl Van Doren
springline- Correct option: C:) Hawthorne
8. The London publisher, Richard Bentley, censored or changed sensitive passages; Melville made revisions as well, including a last-minute change to the title for the New York edition. The whale, however, appears in the text of both editions as ‘Moby Dick’, without the hyphen. The book was first published (in three volumes) as The Whale in London in _____?
A: ) November 1850
B: ) October 1851
C: ) March 1850
D: ) May 1851
springline- Correct option: B:) October 1851
9. Ishmael travels in December from Manhattan Island to New Bedford, Massachusetts, with plans to sign up for a whaling voyage. The inn where he arrives is overcrowded, so he must share a bed with the tattooed cannibal Polynesian Queequeg, a harpooneer whose father was king of the fictional island of _________?
A: ) Maldives
B: ) Ionian
C: ) Rokovoko
D: ) Andros
springline- Correct option: C:) Rokovoko
10. Ishmael and Queequeg attend Father Mapple's sermon on Jonah, then head for Nantucket. Ishmael signs up with the Quaker ship-owners Bildad and Peleg for a voyage on their whaler Pequod. Peleg describes to Whom: ‘He's a grand, ungodly, god-like man’ who nevertheless ‘has his humanities’?
A: ) Ishmael
B: ) Captain Ahab
C: ) Moby Dick
D: ) Starbuck
springline- Correct option: B:) Captain Ahab
11. Ishmael discusses cetology (the zoological classification and natural history of the whale), and describes the crew members. The chief mate is 30-year-old Starbuck, a Nantucket Quaker with a realist mentality, whose harpooneer is Queequeg; second mate is ______?
A: ) Stubb
B: ) Elijah
C: ) Ishmael
D: ) Boomer
springline- Correct option: A:) Stubb
12. The second mate is from Cape Cod, happy-go-lucky and cheerful, whose harpooneer is Tashtego, a proud, pure-blooded Indian from Gay Head; and the third mate is Flask, also from Martha's Vineyard, short, stout, whose harpooneer is Daggoo, a tall _____?
A: ) American
B: ) African
C: ) Italian
D: ) Indian
springline- Correct option: B:) African
13. When Ahab finally appears on the quarterdeck, he announces he is out for revenge on the white whale which took one leg from the knee down and left him with a prosthesis fashioned from a whale's jawbone. Who will give the first man to sight Moby Dick a doubloon, a gold coin, which he nails to the mast ?
A: ) Ishmael
B: ) Father Mapple
C: ) Stubb
D: ) Ahab
springline- Correct option: D:) Ahab
14. One afternoon, as Ishmael and Queequeg are weaving a mat—’its warp seemed necessity, his hand free will, and Queequeg's sword chance’—Tashtego sights a sperm whale. Five previously unknown men appear on deck and are revealed to be a special crew selected by Ahab and explain the shadowy figures seen boarding the ship. Their leader were Fedallah and _____?
A: ) Elijah
B: ) a Parsee
C: ) Flask
D: ) Daggoo
springline- Correct option: B:) a Parsee
15. Southeast of the Cape of Good Hope, the Pequod makes the first of nine sea-encounters, or ‘gams‘, with other ships. Who explains that because of Ahab's absorption with Moby Dick, he sails on without the customary ‘gam’, which he defines as a ‘social meeting of two (or more) Whale-ships’, in which the two captains remain on one ship and the chief mates on the other ?
A: ) Ahab
B: ) Cape Horn
C: ) Ishmael
D: ) Quaker
springline- Correct option: C:) Ishmael
16. In the second gam off the Cape of Good Hope, with the Town-Ho, a Nantucket whaler, the concealed story of a ‘judgment of God’ is revealed, but only to the crew: a defiant sailor who struck an oppressive officer is flogged, and when that officer led the chase for Moby Dick, he fell from the boat and was killed by ________?
A: ) the whale
B: ) Captain
C: ) Mock Dick
D: ) Alba
springline- Correct option: A:) the whale
17. Ishmael digresses on pictures of whales, brit (microscopic sea creatures on which whales feeD:), squid and—after four boats are lowered in vain because Daggoo mistook a giant squid for the white whale—whale-lines. Where Stubb kills a sperm whale?
A: ) the Arabic Ocean
B: ) the Indian Ocean
C: ) the seal Ocean
D: ) Maldives
springline- Correct option: B:) the Indian Ocean
18. The whale carcass still lies in the water. Queequeg mounts it, tied to Ishmael's belt by a monkey-rope as if they were Siamese twins. Stubb and Flask kill a right whale whose head is fastened to a yardarm opposite the sperm whale's head. Who compares the two heads in a philosophical way: the right whale is Lockean, stoic, and the sperm whale is Kantean, platonic ?
A: ) Alba
B: ) Ishmael
C: ) Moby Dick
D: ) Stubb
springline- Correct option: B:) Ishmael
19. Who warns readers to ‘resist any one-to-one equation of Melville and Ishmael and Who was first distinguishes Ishmael as narrator from Ishmael as character as he calls ‘forecastle Ishmael’, the younger Ishmael of some years ago?
A: ) John Barrymore
B: ) Ray Bradbury
C: ) Walter Bezanson
D: ) David Klamen
springline- Correct option: C:) Walter Bezanson
20. According to critic Walter Bezanson, the chapter structure can be divided into ‘chapter sequences’, ‘chapter clusters’, and ‘balancing chapters’. The simplest sequences are of narrative progression, then sequences of theme such as the three chapters on whale painting, and sequences of structural similarity, such as the five dramatic chapters beginning with_____ ?
A: ) The Candles
B: ) The Quarter-Deck
C: ) Invisible Man
D: ) The Town-Ho’s Story
springline- Correct option: B:) The Quarter-Deck
21. Who describes the arrangement of the non-narrative chapters as structured around three patterns: first, the nine meetings of the Pequod with ships that have encountered Moby Dick and each has been more and more severely damaged, foreshadowing the Pequod's own fate?
A: ) John Bull
B: ) Evert Duyckinck
C: ) George Ripley
D: ) Lawrence Buell
springline- Correct option: D:) Lawrence Buell
22. In addition to cetological works, Melville also consulted scattered literary works that mention or discuss whales, as the opening ‘Extracts’ section of the novel demonstrates. For instance, Whose 's essay ‘Of Sperma-Ceti, and the Sperma-Ceti Whale’ from his Pseudodoxia Epidemica is consulted not only in the extracts, but the chapter titled ‘Cetology?
A: ) George Ripley
B: ) Thomas Browne
C: ) D.H. Lawrence
D: ) David Klamen
springline- Correct option: B:) Thomas Browne
23. The Transcendental socialist, Who published a review in the New York Tribune for November 22, in which he compared the book favorably to Mardi, because the ‘occasional touches of the subtle mysticism’ was not carried on to excess but kept within boundaries by the solid realism of the whaling context?
A: ) David Klamen
B: ) George Ripley
C: ) Ralph Ellison
D: ) Henry Chorley
springline- Correct option: B:) George Ripley
24. The other event was the alleged killing in the late 1830s of the albino sperm whale Mocha Dick, in the waters off the Chilean island of Mocha. Mocha Dick was rumored to have 20 or so harpoons in his back from other whalers, and appeared to attack ships with premeditated ferocity. One of his battles with a whaler served as subject for an article by explorer Jeremiah N. Reynolds in _____?
A: ) 1839
B: ) 1840
C: ) 1842
D: ) 1844
springline- Correct option: A:) 1839
25. Ahab seemed to have ‘what seems a half-wilful over-ruling morbidness at the bottom of his nature’, and ‘all men tragically great’, Melville added, ‘are made so through a certain morbidness; ‘all mortal greatness is but disease’. Whose vocabulary is echoed in some phrases that describe Ahab?
A: ) Dr. Johnson
B: ) Dryden
C: ) Keats
D: ) Coleridge
springline- Correct option: D:) Coleridge
26. F. O. Matthiessen, in 1941, declared that Melville's ‘possession by Shakespeare went far beyond all other influences’ in that it made Melville discover his own full strength ‘through the challenge of the most abundant imagination in history’. This insight was then reinforced by the study of Melville's annotatations in his reading copy of Shakespeare, which show that he immersed himself in Shakespeare when he was preparing for Moby-Dick, especially King Lear and ___?
A: ) Macbeth
B: ) Tempest
C: ) Hamlet
D: ) Othello
springline- Correct option: A:) Macbeth
27. The novel uses several levels of rhetoric. The simplest is ‘a relatively straightforward expository style’, such as in the cetological chapters, though they are ‘rarely sustained, and serve chiefly as transitions’ between more sophisticated levels. A second level is the ‘poetic’, such as in Ahab's quarter-deck monologue, to the point that it can be set as _______ ?
A: ) Free Verse
B: ) blank verse
C: ) Narrative
D: ) Epic
springline- Correct option: B:) blank verse
28. Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Melville was born in New York City, the third child of a prosperous merchant whose death in 1832 left the family in dire financial straits. He took to sea in 1839 as a common sailor on a merchant ship and then on the whaler Acushnet, but he jumped ship in the_______?
A: ) Maldives Islands
B: ) Cook Island
C: ) Marquesas Islands
D: ) Baffin Island
springline- Correct option: C:) Marquesas Islands
29. Melville's writing style shows both consistencies and enormous changes throughout the years. His development ‘had been abnormally postponed, and when it came, it came with a rush and a force that had the menace of quick exhaustion in It. Some chapters of Moby-Dick are no more than two pages in standard editions, and an extreme example is Chapter 122, consisting of a single paragraph of _____?
A: ) 28 words
B: ) 30 words
C: ) 36 words
D: ) 40 words
springline- Correct option: C:) 36 words
30. As satirical elements were introduced, the chapter arrangement restores ‘some degree of organization and pace from the chaos’. The usual chapter unit then reappears for Israel Potter, The Confidence-Man and even Clarel, but only becomes ‘a vital part in the whole creative achievement’ again in the juxtaposition of accents and of topics in ____?
A: ) Israel Potter
B: ) Mardi
C: ) Benito Cereno
D: ) Billy Budd
springline- Correct option: D:) Billy Budd