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

The flag of a sunken ship

A whale

A drowned sailor
2 Which of the following Greek mythological characters does not appear in the poem?
Odysseus

Achilles

Poseidon

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

Jonas Messias

The pilgrims walking to Walsingham

The Quaker sailors
4 What make the speaker uneasy about the face of the Virgin Mary in Walsingham?
It reminds him of someone from his past

It is too beautiful

Its paint is chipped

It is expressionless
5 Which of the following characters does the speaker NOT address?
The Atlantic

The Sailor

Jonas Messias

Poseidon
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 "upward angel"

The statue of the Virgin Mary

The wind
8 Whom does the poem refer to as "IS"?
The speaker

Ishmael from Moby-Dick

God

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

danger

mutability

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

Whales

Blue-fish

Sea-gulls
11 What happens to the red flag in the poem?
It appears in Walsingham

The speaker imagines himself tearing it down

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

It is shaken down from the mast by thunder
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 appears too small for the altar

She sits near, not on, the altar

She seems to be on the verge of tears
13 Which of the following is the Atlantic NOT "fouled" with?
Blue sailors

Fallen angels

Ships

Heavy oil spills
14 Which of the following do the sea-gulls NOT do, according to the speaker?
Circle over remains

Wail for water

Land on the mast of the Pequod

Tremble over Warren Winslow's death
15 What cries out in sympathy for the injured whale?
The Quakers' bones

The wind

The sea-gulls and terns

The rattling crabs
16 To what does the speaker compare the pilgrims walking to Walsingham?
Cows

The Quakers

The injured whale

The corpse from the beginning of the poem
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 weigh him down and throw him back

They have difficulty disentangling him from the net

They search him for valuables

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

Moby-Dick and the Bible

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

The speaker's cousin

The Quakers

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

Time

The faces of drowned soldiers

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

The Virgin Mary and the sea-gulls

Poseidon and the "blue-lung'd combers"

The whale and the Virgin Mary
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"?
Out of God's sight

In the ash-pit of Jehoshaphat

In the ocean

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

Evergreen

Maple

Pine

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