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

The flag of a sunken ship

A seal

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

Achilles

Odysseus

Orpheus
3 Who says and repeats, "If God himself had not been on our side"?
Jonas Messias

The Leviathans

The pilgrims walking to Walsingham

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

It reminds him of someone from his past

It is too beautiful

Its paint is chipped
5 Which of the following characters does the speaker NOT address?
The Sailor

Jonas Messias

Poseidon

The Atlantic
6 In the last stanza, what does the speaker claim God made man from?
Marble

Sea slime

His own flesh

Clay from deep in the earth
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"?
God

The speaker

The whale

Ishmael from Moby-Dick
9 "The Lord survives the ____ of his will."
mutability

cruelty

danger

rainbow
10 What do the "lubbers" try to catch?
Blue-fish

Whales

Eels

Sea-gulls
11 What happens to the red flag in the poem?
It is shaken down from the mast by thunder

The speaker imagines himself tearing it down

It appears in Walsingham

It becomes the last surviving remnant of the ship it sank with
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?
Ships

Fallen angels

Blue sailors

Heavy oil spills
14 Which of the following do the sea-gulls NOT do, according to the speaker?
Wail for water

Tremble over Warren Winslow's death

Land on the mast of the Pequod

Circle over remains
15 What cries out in sympathy for the injured whale?
The Quakers' bones

The rattling crabs

The sea-gulls and terns

The wind
16 To what does the speaker compare the pilgrims walking to Walsingham?
The corpse from the beginning of the poem

The Quakers

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 determination

their loyalty

their bravery

their foolishness
18 What does the crew do with the body they pull up in the first stanza?
They search him for valuables

They have difficulty disentangling him from the net

They weigh him down and throw him back

They prepare a coffin so he can be taken to shore and properly buried
19 What two works does the phrase "the mast-lashed master of Leviathans" reference?
The Odyssey and the Bible

Moby-Dick and the Odyssey

The Bible and Paradise Lost

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

The Quakers

The dying whale

The speaker's cousin
21 What does the poem refer to as "open-eyed,/Wooden and childish"?
The statue of the Virgin Mary

The Quakers

The faces of drowned soldiers

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

The sea-gulls and the terns

The whale and the Virgin Mary

Poseidon and the "blue-lung'd combers"
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

Out of God's sight

In his side
25 What type of tree "splatters and splatters on the cenotaph"?
Evergreen

Pine

Maple

Oak

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