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 drowned sailor

A whale

A seal

The flag of a sunken ship
2 Which of the following Greek mythological characters does not appear in the poem?
Poseidon

Orpheus

Odysseus

Achilles
3 Who says and repeats, "If God himself had not been on our side"?
Jonas Messias

The pilgrims walking to Walsingham

The Quaker sailors

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

Its paint is chipped

It is expressionless

It reminds him of someone from his past
5 Which of the following characters does the speaker NOT address?
Jonas Messias

Poseidon

The Atlantic

The Sailor
6 In the last stanza, what does the speaker claim God made man from?
His own flesh

Clay from deep in the earth

Marble

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

The statue of the Virgin Mary

The white whale

The "upward angel"
8 Whom does the poem refer to as "IS"?
The whale

The speaker

God

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

cruelty

rainbow

danger
10 What do the "lubbers" try to catch?
Eels

Blue-fish

Sea-gulls

Whales
11 What happens to the red flag in the poem?
It is shaken down from the mast by thunder

The speaker imagines himself tearing it down

It appears in Walsingham

It becomes the last surviving remnant of the ship it sank with
12 Which of the following is untrue about the speaker's perception of the statue of the Virgin Mary?
She seems to be on the verge of tears

She and God share secret knowledge

She appears too small for the altar

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

Fallen angels

Blue sailors

Heavy oil spills
14 Which of the following do the sea-gulls NOT do, according to the speaker?
Tremble over Warren Winslow's death

Circle over remains

Wail for water

Land on the mast of the Pequod
15 What cries out in sympathy for the injured whale?
The wind

The rattling crabs

The Quakers' bones

The sea-gulls and terns
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 loyalty

their determination

their foolishness
18 What does the crew do with the body they pull up in the first stanza?
They search him for valuables

They weigh him down and throw him back

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?
Moby-Dick and the Bible

The Bible and Paradise Lost

The Odyssey and the Bible

Moby-Dick and the Odyssey
20 What do the sea-gulls "wail" for?
The dying whale

Water

The Quakers

The speaker's cousin
21 What does the poem refer to as "open-eyed,/Wooden and childish"?
The statue of the Virgin Mary

Time

The Quakers

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

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.
True

False
24 Where does the speaker beg Jonas Messias to hide "our steel"?
In the ocean

In the ash-pit of Jehoshaphat

In his side

Out of God's sight
25 What type of tree "splatters and splatters on the cenotaph"?
Pine

Oak

Maple

Evergreen

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