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 * Moby Dick Questions Chapters 106, 109-110, 112-113, 117, 119**

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Chapter 106: Ahab’s Leg

1. What does Ahab have the ship’s carpenter make for him and why?

Chapter 109: Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin

2. How does Captain Ahab respond when Starbuck informs him that the oil casks in the hold are leaking and suggests that they stop to fix them?

3. Why does Captain Ahab ultimately order that the oil casks are to be repaired?

Chapter 110: Queequeg in His Coffin

4. What does Queequeg do when he falls seriously ill?

5. Queequeg becomes well again. To what does Ishmael attribute this recovery?

6. To what does Queequeg himself attribute the recovery?

Chapter 112: The Blacksmith 7. Why did the blacksmith join the crew of the Pequod?

8. What reason does Ishmael give for the ability of the sea to beckon to brokenhearted men?

Chapter 113: The Forge 9. Ahab asks the blacksmith to make a special harpoon with which to kill the White Whale. However, he soon takes over the crafting of the harpoon himself. What does Ahab use to temper the steel?

Chapter 117: The Whale Watch

10. What is Fedallah’s prophecy regarding Captain Ahab?

11. How does Captain Ahab interpret this prophecy?

12. Fedallah continues by telling Ahab that only hemp can kill the captain. How does Ahab interpret this second prophecy?

Chapter 119: The Candles

13. The Pequod encounters a typhoon and a terrible lightening storm. How does Ahab interpret it when the ship’s three masts are lit up like candles?

14. How does Starbuck interpret this same phenomenon?

15. How does Starbuck interpret it when he sees Ahab’s harpoon also flickering with fire?

16. What does Captain Ahab do with the harpoon and what does he say to the crew?