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25 Questions

1. What Does Ahab Always Carry In His Pocket?

2. What Are The "Candles" That Are Referenced Throughout Chapter 119?

3. Why Was The Crew Of The Bachelor In Festive Mood?

4. Why Does The Crew Accept The Strangers So Steadily After Their Initial Appearance?

5. What Are The Chances That A Harpoon Dart Will Hit A Whale?

6. Who Is Given The Duty If Replacing The Damaged Limb?

7. What Leads Ahab To Believe That He Can Find One Single Whale?

8. Why Does Ishmael Assert That Only One In Ten Thrown Harpoons Finds It's Target?

9. What Makes The Specksnyder Different From The Other Officers On The Ship?

10. He Says It Is Easy For A Man To Look Like He Is Carrying A Great Secret

11. What Becomes Of The Coffin That Is Constructed For Queequeg?

12. Why Does Ahab Threaten Pip's Life As The Boy Follows Him Around The Deck?

13. One Of The First Things Ishmael Notices Upon Entering The Inn Is A Painting. What Does The Painting Depict?

14. What Alarms Captain Burger About Ahab During The Meeting?

15. An Old Oil Painting

16. Why Was The Crew Of The Bachelor In Festive Mood?

17. What Is The Name Of The Minister Who Preaches The Sermon Heard By Ishmael At The Whaleman's Chapel In New Bedford?

18. Describe Queequeg's First Experience With A Wheelbarrow.

19. What Country Is The Doubloon Minted In?

20. Rose Bud

21. How Is Ahab's Artificial Leg Damaged?

22. Why Does The Whale-line Contain Less Tar Than A Standard Rope?

23. Gabriel

24. What Does Ahab Give To The Blacksmith To Make A Point For His Harpoon?

25. Why Does Starbuck Order Stubb To Report The Ship's Conditions To Ahab?