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 * Moby Dick Questions Chapters 10-13, 15-18**

Name: …………………………………………… Period: ………. Date: …………..

Chapter 10: A Bosom Friend

1. What is Ishmael's assessment of Queeqeg's personal character?

2. What particularly amazes Ishmael about Queeqeg?

3. Ishmael and Queeqeg become true friends. What does Queegeg give to Ishmael as a token of his friendship?

4. Why does Ishmael consent to join in Queequeg’s idol worship?

Chapter 11: Nightgown and Chapter 12: Biographical

5. Briefly detail Queeqeg’s life story.

7. When does Queeqeg plan to return to his native land?

Chapter 13: Wheelbarrow

8. How does Queeqeg win everyone’s respect during the ferry ride?

Chapter 15: Chowder

9. Ishmael and Queequeg settle at the Try-Pots for the night, an inn owned by the cousin of the Spouter-Inn’s owner. What disturbs Ishmael at the Try-Pots?

Chapter 16: The Ship

10.. Ishmael sets out to find a ship for Queeqeg and him to sail on, and chooses the Pequod. Describe the ship and why Ishmael refers to her as a “cannibal of a craft”.

11. Ishmael speaks to one of the two owners. What reason does he give this man for his desire to go to sea?

12. What does Peleg tell Ishmael about Captain Ahab?

13. The crew of whaling ships did not receive a salary? How were the men paid?

14 What is the name of the ship’s captain? Why is this a foreboding name?

15. What does Ishmael Peleg tell Ishmael about Captain Ahab's personality?

Chapter 17: The Ramadan

16. Why does Ishmael leave Queeqeg alone in their room at the inn?

17. When Ishmael returns to the room, the door is locked. He knocks but no one answers. Ishmael, frightened for Queeqeg's well-being calls for a chambermaid, who in turn calls for a boy with an ax to break down the door. What do they discover when they enter the room?

Chapter 18: His Mark

18. The owners of the Pequod are Quakers and object to the fact that Queeqeg is a pagan. Why do they finally allow him to join the crew?

19. What does Peleg say about religious harpooners?