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1. ""_____ _____ _____."
What three words form the opening sentence of Moby Dick, perhaps the most famous of all?
2. Where does Ishmael's harpooner friend Queequeg come from?
3. What little wooden idol does Queequeg worship?
4. What American president does Ishmael compare Queequeg to?
5. What is the pulpit of the Seaman's Bethel shaped like in the book?
6. Who are the owners of the 'Pequod'?
7. Where does the 'Pequod' sail from?
8. Besides Starbuck, who are the other two mates?
9. Who are Queequeg's fellow harpooners?
10. What other characters are black besides Dagoo?
11. What is the first ship the 'Pequod' meets?
12. Which leg of Ahab's was lost to Moby?
13. What reward does Ahab offer for he who first sights the White Whale?
14. Who does Queequeg rescue from the head of a sperm whale?
15. What does Stubb discover in the bowels of a killed whale?
16. What was the French whaler the 'Pequod' visited?
17. What unusual part of a whale's anatomy is hauled up on the 'Pequod'?
18. Where does the 'Samuel Enderby' come from?
19. What does Queequeg have the ship's carpenter make for him?
20. What does Ahab temper his new harpoon with?
21. Which whaleship is looking for its captain's lost son?
22. What do Ahab and the crew see during a storm?
23. Who first sees Moby Dick?
24. After Moby Dick destroys the 'Pequod' and kills Ahab and the rest of the crew, what saves Ishmael?
25. What was the ship that rescued Ishmael?
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