Unit 2, part 3 test- Hawthorne and melville Flashcards
What does the sea probably symbolize in the final sequence from the selection?
Natures power over humanity
The white whale against whom ahab seeks vengeance
Caused ahab to lose his leg in a previous encounter
Melvilles deepest philosophical concern is with the
Nature of evil
Ahab’s rambling monologues show that he is
single-minded
Which of these aspects of nature does the white whale not symbolize
Spiritual comfort
In “the Chase – – – third day, “which of the following is not one of the omens of disaster
Ahab nailing a gold going to the mast
Which of these choices lists characters from Moby – dick in descending rank
ahab-starbuck-stubb-ishmael
Which detail listed in the choices below most clearly suggests that ahab’s footprints are a symbol in the following passage
The comparison relating them to “The footprints of his one unsleeping, ever – pacing thought”
What does stubb mean when he says of ahab, “The chicken that’s in the show.’ Twill soon be out “?
Something is bothering ahab and it will soon drive him to action
To ahab’s mind, moby dick symbolizes a wall that
Must be broken to reach the truth behind it
What is the chief significance of ahab’sbeing drowned by his own harpoon line
It stresses the idea of that obsession and vengefulness are self-destructive
Why does Dr.Heidegger caution for elderly people to draw up rules?
Do you fear is they will revert to old behaviors and waste the gift
The most likely allegorical meaning of the entire story concerns
Youth and age
What does dr. Heidegger mean by referring to his subjects’ potential “peculiar advantages quote?
They would experience youth for a second time
What does the water symbolize
eternal youth
Dr. Heidegger suggests that the experiment could benefit
young people
the four people who drink the doctors water samples for
Age
Why are the elderly people “inclined to swallow” the water “at once “
They are impatient to regain their youth
What positive effect does the veil have
Parson hooper is able to convert more sinners
“The ministers black veil” is a parable, which means that characters, events, and details of setting
Are simplified to teach a moral lesson
Based on this story, how would you describe Hawthorne’s view of human nature?
Pessimistic
Which statement expresses a central theme of the story?
People are often unwilling to face the truth about themselves
Based on the rest of the story, what can you infer about the meaning of the following passage
Each person hides his or her darkest secrets from others for fear of what others will think
The narrator implies that in wearing the veil, the minister
Performs a symbolic act
When is the veil removed
never
T/F Starbuck is Ahab’s most outspoken supporter
F
t/f The true purpose of the voyage is to hunt and kill moby-dick
t
t/f Tashtego is one of the harpooners
t
t/f To ahab, moby dick is merely a dumb animal
f
t/f Ahab offers a spanish gold coin to the sailor who first sights moby-dick
T
t/f Tashtego is the sailor to identify the white whale by name
T
t/f Starbuck objects to ahab’s announcement by claiming that his business is to hunt whales, not the captain’s vengence
t
t/f The bad omen that Starbuck observes is the hawk peeking at the red flag
T
t/f On the third day of the chase, the Pequod comes upon a large number of sharks
T
t/f Ahab succeeds in killing moby-dick
F
t/f After ahab’s death, the pequod sails back to nantucket
F
t/f Starbuck says that ahab has a “Heart of wrought steel”When he orders the lowering of the boat among hungry sharks
T
t/f Ahab nailing a gold coin to the mass is NOT one of the omens of disaster
T
t/f Hawthorne wrote from the Puritan view of human goodness
F
t/f Hawthorns writings contain a theme and guilt that is the result
T
t/f Hawthorne had a Puritan imagination and a dark view of human nature and mathematics
F
t/f Hawthorne was Melville’s mentor
T
t/f Melville was concerned with the origin and nature of evil in itself
T
t/f Melville was most popular when he wrote simple adventure stories
t
t/f In Moby Dick good and evil are not linked
f
t/f Melville came from a Calvinist background which was similar to puritainism
t
t/f Melville dedicated Moby Dick to Dickinson
f
T/F anti-transcendentalists criticized transcendental Philosophy for refusing to account for the active presence of evil in the world
t
T/F two authors against transcendentalism were Hawthorne and throreau
f
What does the sea probably symbolize in this final sentence from the selection? Then it all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled 5000 years ago
Nature’s power over humanity
