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Moby Dick Quiz 1 Directions: Answer each of the following essay questions in a brief, but well-developed paragraph in which you quote specifics from the novel. This quiz should take you the entire period if you are going to write well-developed answers. Each question will be graded on a scale of 10 to 0 points.

1. Characterization is a technique that writers use to develop a character. Writers allow their readers to get to know the characters that they create by showing what the character does, how the character talks, how the character dresses, where a character lives, what others in the story say about a character, and how others in the story act towards a character, among other things. Explain what type of person the character of Queequeg is by listing three adjectives. After each of the adjective give specifics from the text that support that adjective.

2. What town was the whaling capitol of the world during the time that this story took place? Citing specific details from the book, describe what that town looked like, what kind of people lived there, and what the church was like and how these elements of the town were influenced by the whaling industry.

3. To what religion do Captain Bildad and Captain Peleg belong? Why do they at first refuse to sign Queequeg on to their whaling ship, the Pequod? How does Ishmael argue in Queequeg’s defense? What makes Bildad and Peleg change their minds about hiring Quequeg? Explain what this change of attitude tells us about these two characters. How does this stand in stark contrast to Quequeg’s temperament?