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?
The flag of a sunken ship

A drowned sailor

A seal

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

Odysseus

Poseidon

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

The Quaker sailors

The pilgrims walking to Walsingham

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

Its paint is chipped

It is expressionless

It is too beautiful
5 Which of the following characters does the speaker NOT address?
Poseidon

The Atlantic

Jonas Messias

The Sailor
6 In the last stanza, what does the speaker claim God made man from?
Sea slime

His own flesh

Clay from deep in the earth

Marble
7 Which creature, object, or element has claws in this poem?
The wind

The "upward angel"

The statue of the Virgin Mary

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

God

The whale

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

mutability

cruelty

danger
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

It appears in Walsingham

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

The speaker imagines himself tearing it down
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 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?
Fallen angels

Ships

Heavy oil spills

Blue sailors
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 sea-gulls and terns

The rattling crabs

The Quakers' bones

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

The Quakers

The injured whale

Cows
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 foolishness

their determination

their loyalty
18 What does the crew do with the body they pull up in the first stanza?
They prepare a coffin so he can be taken to shore and properly buried

They have difficulty disentangling him from the net

They search him for valuables

They weigh him down and throw him back
19 What two works does the phrase "the mast-lashed master of Leviathans" reference?
Moby-Dick and the Bible

The Odyssey and the Bible

The Bible and Paradise Lost

Moby-Dick and the Odyssey
20 What do the sea-gulls "wail" for?
The speaker's cousin

The dying whale

The Quakers

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

The statue of the Virgin Mary

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

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.

False

True
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"?
Maple

Oak

Pine

Evergreen

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