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18 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Another title for the novel Moby Dick is...?
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The Whale
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The narrator in the beginning of the reading is looking for...?
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Captain Ahab
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Where is the captain at the beginning of the selection?
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cabin
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The Captains ________ is made of ______________________
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leg; sperm whale's jaw
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The name of the ship is....?
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Pequod
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The captain displayed an infinity of firmest _________ unsurrenderable willfulness in his fearless glance.
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fortitude
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The three assistants on the ship are _________,_________,____________
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Starbuck, Stubb, Flask
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The captain offered a sixteen-dollar piece of ________ from _______ to the one who could get whale for him.
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gold; spain
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The three barbarians on the ship are ________,_________,_________.
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Daggoo,Tashtego, Queequeg
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The name of the whale______
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Moby Dick
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The barbarians who are ___________, or professional whalers, are described as _________,_________,_________.
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Harpooner; motley,barbaric, heathenish
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It has been rumored that the the whale spouts _________________.
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black blood
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The captain is filled with ____________ for the whale.
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vengeance
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Starbuck thinks the captain is being___________.
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blasphemous
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The captain asks the assistants and barbarians to cross their __________ at the point of the ___________.
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lances; axis
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What kind of whale is the captain after?
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Sperm Whale
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Wild suggestions have been made that the infamous whale was or being everywhere at once, and ______________, or living forever.
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immortal
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The whale is being described as being filled with uncommon _________ and _______.
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magnitude, malignity
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