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 drowned sailor

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"?

The pilgrims walking to Walsingham

Jonas Messias

The Quaker sailors

The Leviathans
4 What make the speaker uneasy about the face of the Virgin Mary in Walsingham?

It is too beautiful

It is expressionless

It reminds him of someone from his past

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

The Sailor

Jonas Messias

The Atlantic

Poseidon
6 In the last stanza, what does the speaker claim God made man from?

Marble

His own flesh

Clay from deep in the earth

Sea slime
7 Which creature, object, or element has claws in this poem?

The white whale

The "upward angel"

The wind

The statue of the Virgin Mary
8 Whom does the poem refer to as "IS"?

The speaker

God

Ishmael from Moby-Dick

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

danger

mutability

cruelty

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

Blue-fish

Whales

Sea-gulls

Eels
11 What happens to the red flag in the poem?

The speaker imagines himself tearing it down

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
12 Which of the following is untrue about the speaker's perception of the statue of the Virgin Mary?

She appears too small for the altar

She and God share secret knowledge

She seems to be on the verge of tears

She sits near, not on, the altar
13 Which of the following is the Atlantic NOT "fouled" with?

Ships

Fallen angels

Heavy oil spills

Blue sailors
14 Which of the following do the sea-gulls NOT do, according to the speaker?

Land on the mast of the Pequod

Wail for water

Circle over remains

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

The rattling crabs

The wind

The Quakers' bones

The sea-gulls and terns
16 To what does the speaker compare the pilgrims walking to Walsingham?

The Quakers

The corpse from the beginning of the poem

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 bravery

their loyalty

their foolishness

their determination
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 search him for valuables

They prepare a coffin so he can be taken to shore and properly buried

They have difficulty disentangling him from the net
19 What two works does the phrase "the mast-lashed master of Leviathans" reference?

The Bible and Paradise Lost

The Odyssey and the Bible

Moby-Dick and the Odyssey

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

The Quakers

The speaker's cousin

The dying whale

Water
21 What does the poem refer to as "open-eyed,/Wooden and childish"?

The Quakers

The statue of the Virgin Mary

Time

The faces of drowned soldiers
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

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.

False

True
24 Where does the speaker beg Jonas Messias to hide "our steel"?

In his side

In the ocean

Out of God's sight

In the ash-pit of Jehoshaphat
25 What type of tree "splatters and splatters on the cenotaph"?

Oak

Maple

Evergreen

Pine

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