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This document provides answers and summaries for comprehension activities from different chapters of the book Moby Dick. It includes answers to multiple choice and short answer questions about key events and characters. For example, it summarizes that Ahab refused to help search for a missing boy so he could focus on hunting Moby Dick, and it recounts how three of Ahab's men were thrown overboard during an encounter with the whale.

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Answers To Activities in The Reader

This document provides answers and summaries for comprehension activities from different chapters of the book Moby Dick. It includes answers to multiple choice and short answer questions about key events and characters. For example, it summarizes that Ahab refused to help search for a missing boy so he could focus on hunting Moby Dick, and it recounts how three of Ahab's men were thrown overboard during an encounter with the whale.

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Answers to activities in the reader

PRE-READING ACTIVITIES (page 7)

1 1. harpoon 5. rope

2. rescued 6. protected

3. fever 7. bones

4. coin

2 Accept all logical and grammatically correct


answers.

CHAPTERS 1-2 ACTIVITIES (pages 14-15)

1 impressed candle become blanket sunlight


crazy

1. sunlight 4. impressed

2. become 5. crazy

3. blanket 6. candle

2 1. d 2. c 3. a 4. b

3 1. Because he was unhappy with his life in New


York. He wanted an interesting life and a new
job.

2. Kwee-Kweg was enormous, had frightening


tattoos all over his body, and was carrying a
hatchet.

3. He took the hatchet from the table and wanted


to kill Ishmael.

4. Because he was one of the proprietors of a


whaling ship called the Pequod, and the two
men wanted to join his next voyage.

5. He threw his harpoon over the head of the


proprietor and across the ship’s deck. It went
straight into the centre of the oil.
6. Captain Ahab lost a leg in a fight with the
great white whale, Moby Dick.

4 1. Kwee-Kweg 4. Stubb

2. Mr Coffin 5. Starbuck

3. Ishmael 6. Captain Ahab

CHAPTERS 3-4 ACTIVITIES (pages 22-23)

1 help coin battle weather calm excited

1. weather 4. help

2. calm 5. excited

3. battle 6. coin

lominhtalfyericdangermswskoirpioedisappearedacemrjdtblhnhditotnsiobarbrightalopexo
nldmne

1. join 4. bright

2. disappeared 5. hole

3. missed 6. danger

3 1. He learned that one of Captain Ahab’s legs


was artificial and he had a frightening, long
mark down one side of his face. Maybe he
got it from Moby Dick.

2. Stubb wanted Captain Ahab to put


something over his wooden foot because the
noise irritated him. The suggestion made
Ahab angry and he almost hit Stubb.

3. The captain offered the prize of a Spanish


gold coin.

4. When the men are near a whale, they leave


the ship and go into harpoon boats to hunt
the whale.

5. The boat hit a rock and turned over. Ishmael


and the other sailors in the boat fell into the
water.

4 1. d 2. e 3. f 4. a 5. b 6. c

CHAPTERS 5-6 ACTIVITIES (pages 30-31)

1 1. got caught 4. shouted at

2. kept his promise 5. cut off

3. tied round

2 rope death wide rescue shark valuable

1. valuable 4. death

2. rope 5. shark

3. wide 6. rescue

3 1. Because he brought special sailors from the


Philippines to help in the hunt for Moby Dick.
He always went with these other sailors to
hunt whales. He didn’t protect the ship.

2. He thinks it’s too dangerous because one of


his sailors was killed by Moby Dick.

3. Stubb needed Pip to help in his boat


because one of his sailors hurt his hand.
When a whale went under the boat, Pip was
frightened and jumped from the boat. He
almost died, but he was rescued.

4. Stubb kept his promise in the beginning, but


after some time, the Pequod finally rescued
Little Pip.

5. He felt sorry for Pip because both of them


understood about death. Little Pip started to
live in the captain’s cabin. They became good
friends. When the captain needed help, Little
Pip helped him.

4 1. F 2. F 3. T 4. F 5. T 6. T

5 1. Sharks try to eat dead whales.


2. They did it because the whale oil in the head
was very valuable.

4. Little Pip didn’t want to go in a harpoon boat


but sometimes the officers needed an extra
man.

CHAPTERS 7-8 ACTIVITIES (pages 38-39)

1 1. a fever 4. a coward

2. a carpenter 5. a hook

3. earth

2 1. F 2. T 3. T 4. T 5. F

3 1. Because Captain Boomer had an artificial


arm made of white bone, like Ahab’s leg.
Ahab wanted to know if the captain lost his
arm because of Moby Dick.

2. There were harpoons in Moby Dick’s tail.


They belonged to Captain Ahab. He threw
them at the whale in an earlier attack.

3. Captain Boomer believes it’s too dangerous to


hunt Moby Dick.

4. He asked for a wooden box. He wanted to be


in the box with his things when he died.

5. Because Pip feels he is a coward for


jumping from a harpoon boat, and that he
has dishonoured all sailors.

6. He says, “If I decide to live, then I will live.


No fever can kill me if I don’t want to die.”

4 1. a 2. b 3. b 4. c

CHAPTERS 9-10 ACTIVITIES (pages 46-47)

1 1. c 2. e 3. d 4. b 5. a

2 1. piece 4. feeling

2. luck 5. bad sign


3. hidden

3 1. His twelve-year-old son was missing and he


wanted to pay Ahab to let him use his boats
for two days and search for his son.

2. Ahab refused to help the captain. He wanted


to go after Moby Dick immediately and
didn’t want to waste any time.

3. Because he was afraid Moby Dick might


appear and the sailors might not see him.
Ahab wanted to see the white whale before
anybody else.

4. Birds often follow whales to eat some of


their food. But superstitious sailors often see
the birds as a bad sign.

5. Ahab took the huge tooth between his hands


and tried to pull it out with all his strength.
Then the boat broke in two.

6. The Pequod sailed between Moby Dick and


the men in the water. The sailors on the ship
pulled the other men out of the water.

4 A. 3 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4 E. 1 F. 2

CHAPTERS 11-12 ACTIVITIES (pages 56-57)

1 1. stay 4. put

2. circle 5. shake

3. survive
3 1. They were very excited. If anybody had
doubts about the fight, they forgot them.
Every sailor was prepared to put his life in
danger.

2. He answers, “It’s our destiny to hunt this


whale until we kill him or he kills us.”

3. The sailors worked hard to repair the boats


for the battle the next day. The carpenter
also worked hard to make a new leg for
Ahab.

4. He knows he might not return.

5. Three of Ahab’s men were thrown into the


water. Two climbed into the boat again. The
third man sank to the bottom of the sea.

6. He held Kwee-Kweg’s box in the water until


the Rachel rescued him.

4 1. e 2. d 3. f 4. b 5. c 6. a

Whale Food (page 65)

1 1. sound

2. Sonar

3. organisms

4. algae

5. krill

6. health

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