Chapter 101 - The Decanter Quiz — Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Which whaling house does Ishmael compare to the royal houses of the Tudors and Bourbons?

• Coffin & Sons
• Enderby & Sons
• Macey & Company
• Starbuck Brothers

What was the name of the Enderby ship that first rounded Cape Horn to hunt whales in the South Sea?

• The Syren
• The Rattler
• The Amelia
• The Samuel Enderby

Who were the first people to harpoon the great Sperm Whale with civilized steel?

• The English
• The Dutch
• The Nantucketers
• The Danes

What whaling ground was discovered by the ship Syren?

• The South Atlantic Ground
• The Cape Horn Ground
• The Japanese Whaling Ground
• The Spitzbergen Ground

Ishmael personally boarded the Samuel Enderby off the Patagonian coast and drank flip in the forecastle.

The masts of the Samuel Enderby went overboard during the squall while the drunken crew was aloft.

Dr. Snodhead confirmed that "Dan Coopman" meant "The Cooper" in Dutch.

According to the Dutch provisioning list, how many barrels of beer were supplied for 180 whaling ships?

• 5,400 barrels
• 10,800 barrels
• 20,000 barrels
• 2,800 barrels

What is a "gam" in whaling terminology?

• A type of harpoon
• A social meeting between whaling ship crews
• A whale sighting call
• A method of processing blubber

What does "anti-scorbutic" mean in the context of the sailors' bread?

• Extremely stale and hard
• Preventing or curing scurvy
• Made with exotic spices
• Baked at sea during the voyage

From whom does Ishmael say the English whalers inherited their traditions of generous provisioning?

• The French and Spanish
• The Nantucketers and Americans
• The Hollanders, Zealanders, and Danes
• The Portuguese and Italians

The British government sent the sloop-of-war Rattler on a whaling discovery voyage at the Enderbys' urging.

What is the final line of Chapter 101 and the meaning behind the chapter's title?

• "And so the great whale escaped once more."
• "And this empties the decanter."
• "The hunt must go on."
• "And thus ended our gam with the Samuel Enderby."

What is a "firkin" as used in the Dutch provisioning list?

• A type of whale oil lamp
• A small cask or unit of measurement for butter
• A Dutch sailing term for rigging
• A type of salted pork