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Hawthorne & Melville Flashcards

0
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In “The Chase - Third Day”, which of the following is not one of the omens of disaster?

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Ahab nailing a gold coin to the mast

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What does theses probably symbolize in this final sentence from the selection?

“Then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it had rolled five thousand years ago.”

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Natures power over humanity

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What is the chief significance of Ahab’s being drowned by his own harpoon line?

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It stresses the idea that obsession and vengefulness and self destructiveness

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Ahab’s rambling monologues show that he is

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Single minded

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Which of these choices lists characters from Moby Dick in descending rank?

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Ahab-Starbuck-Stubb-Ishmael

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What does Stubb mean when he says of Ahab “the chick that’s in him pecks the shell, twill soon be out”?

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Something is bothering Ahab and will soon drive him too action

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Which of these aspects of nature does the white whale not symbolize

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Spiritual comfort

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Which detail listed in the choices below most clearly suggests that Ahab’s footprints are a symbol in the following passage

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The comparison relating them to the “the footprints of his one unsleeping, ever pacing thought.”

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The white whale against whom Ahab seeks vengeance

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Caused Ahab to lose his leg in a previous encounter

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Melville’s deepest philosophical concern is with the

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Nature of evil

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To Ahab’s mind, Moby Dick symbolizes a wall that

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Must be broken through to reach the truth behind it

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What positive effect does the veil have?

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Parson hooper is able to convert more sinners

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The narrator implies that in wearing the veil, the minister

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Performs a symbolic act

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When is the veil removed?

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Never

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Based on this story, how would you describe Hawthorne’s view of human nature

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Pessimistic

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Which statement expresses a central theme of the story

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People are often unwilling to face the truth about themselves

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Based on the rest of the story what can you infer about the following passage

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Each person hides his or her darkest secrets

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17
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The ministers black veil is a parable, which means that characters, events, and details of the settings

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Are simplified to teach a moral lesson

18
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Ahab nailing a gold coin to the mast is NOT one of the omens of disaster

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True

19
Q

Ahab succeeds in killing Moby Dick

A

False

20
Q

Starbuck says that Ahab has a heart wrought of steel when he orders the lowering of the boat among the hungry sharks

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True

21
Q

The bad omen that Starbuck observes is the hawk pecking at the red flag

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True

22
Q

On the third day of the chase, the Pequod sails into a lot of sharks

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True

23
Q

After Ahab’s death, the Pequod sails back to Nantucket

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False

24
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Ahab dies when he is caught in the harpoon line and dragged into the sea by the whale

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True

25
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The true purpose of the voyage is to hunt and kill Moby Dick

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True

26
Q

Tatshego is the sailor to identify the white whale by name

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True

27
Q

Ahab offers a Spanish gold coin to the sailor who first sights Moby Dick

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True

28
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Starbuck objects to Ahab’s announcement by claiming that his business is to hunt whales, not the captains vengeance

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True

29
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To Ahab, moby dick is merely a dumb animal

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False

30
Q

Tatshego is one of the harpooners

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True

31
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Starbuck is Ahab’s most outspoken supporter

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False

32
Q

Melville dedicated Moby Dick to Dickinson

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False

33
Q

Melville was concerned with the origin and nature of evil itself

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True

34
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Melville came from a Calvinist background which was similar to Puritanism

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True

35
Q

In Moby Dick good and evil are not linked

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False

36
Q

Melville was most popular when he wrote simple adventure stories

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True

37
Q

Hawthorne wrote from the Puritan view of human goodness

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False

38
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Hawthorne was Melville’s mentor

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True

39
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Hawthorne had a Puritan imagination and a dark view of human nature and mathematics

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False

40
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Hawthorne’s writings contain the theme of sin and the guilt that is a result

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True

41
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Anti transcendentalist criticized transcendental philosophy for refusing to account for the active presence of evil in the world

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True

42
Q

Two authors against transcendentalism were Hawthorne and Thoreau

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False

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