Penguin Readers Answer Key
Level 2 Elementary Moby Dick
Moby Dick
Answers to Book Activities
1 Open answers
2 (a) sail ocean
(b) death die
(c) dream sleep
(d) star sky
(e) gold rich
3 (a) a whale
(b) Captain Ahab hates Moby Dick
because he lost a leg in a fight
with it.
(c) a young sailor
(d) Possible answer: Ishmael feels
excited because this is Ishmaels
first whaling trip.
(e) Open answers
4 (a) 4
(b) 7
(c) 5
(d) 6
(e) 1
(f) 3
(g) 2
5 (a) Queequeg a whaler from
Kokovoko. He is ugly. He never
goes home.
(b) Elijah an old sailor. He sailed
with Ahab. He thinks that Ahab is
the Devil.
(c) Starbuck a sailor. He never
smiles. He thinks that Ahabs plan
is crazy.
(d) Stubb a sailor. He is happy and
tells funny stories.
(e) Bildad, Tashtego, etc. sailors.
They come from different
countries and tell interesting
stories.
(f) Pip the little cook boy. He hears
men below them.
6 (a) It is tall and strong with dark
wood from many years on the wild
oceans.
(b) He is sick.
(c) It is dangerous. The work is hard.
You are away from home for many
years.
(d) He wants to see the world.
(e) The men cannot sleep because
Captain Ahab walks up and down
all night.
(f) Starbuck does not want to look
for Moby Dick because he will not
make any money.
(g) Ishmael thinks that Pip can hear
the ocean, not the sound of men.
7 Open answers
8 (a) W
(b) R
(c) R
(d) W
(e) W
(f) W
9 (a) Ishmael the whalers with dark
faces and long black hair
(b) Starbuck Ahabs family
(c) Ishmael he has not got a family
to go home to.
(d) Captain Ahab Captain Boomer
(e) the whalers Fedallah
(f) Starbuck Captain Ahab
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10 (a) ... they do not want the sharks to
eat the whale meat.
(b) he only wants to catch Moby
Dick.
(c) it is easy to see a white whale
in the dark.
(d) Fedallah can see the future.
(e) he wants to follow the white
whale.
1112 Open answers
13 (a) broke
(b) jumps
(c) leaves
(d) thinks
(e) stop
(f) does Answers to Factsheet Activities
(g) die Communicative activities
(h) feels
ACTIVITIES BEFORE READING THE BOOK
14 Possible answers:
(a) Stubb wants to teach Pip a 12 Open answers
lesson.
ACTIVITIES BEFORE READING A SECTION
(b) Pip was in the ocean for too long.
(c) Because Pip thinks that he is God. Chapters 13
(d) Because he knows that Starbuck 12 Open answers
is right.
(e) Because he is very sick. Chapters 46
1516 Open answers (a) Sharks try to eat the whalemeat.
Whalers get oil from whales.
17 (a) they do not want the sharks to They keep the oil in barrels.
eat the whale meat. They kill whales with harpoons.
(b) because he has a bad dream. They need maps when they sail
(c) because he wants to know the across oceans.
future. Bad weather makes their job hard
(d) because the wind is strong and and dangerous.
dangerous.
(e) because his boy was on it. (b)(c) Sharks try to eat the whalemeat.
(f) because he has no time. Chapters 78
18 (a) Fedallah tells Ahab that a rope 1 Open answers
will kill him.
2 (a) Starbuck is angry because Pip
(b) Ahab throws his maps into the
thinks that Captain Ahab is God.
ocean.
(c) Starbuck almost shoots Ahab (b) Open answers
when he is asleep. Chapters 910
(d) Ahab tells Pip to stay in his room.
(e) A bird flies away with Ahabs hat. 1 Open answers
2 Possible answers:
19 (a) Ishmael understands why Ahab
(a) afraid / He is happy that he will kill
talks to Fedallah.
Moby Dick before he dies.
(b) Because he thinks that Ahab will
(b) afraid / He thinks the bad weather
kill everybody with his dangerous
comes from God.
plan.
(c) angry / He will fight it.
20 Open answers (d) angry / Captain Ahabs plan is
dangerous for everybody
21 (a) 2nd
(e) angry / Captain Ahab does not
(b) 2nd
help him look for his son.
(c) 1st
(f) quiet and afraid / They are
(d) 3rd
thinking about their future.
(e) 2nd
(f) 1st (g) angry / Some men are laughing at
(g) 3rd him.
(h) Some think that it is funny. Some
(h) 2nd
are afraid. It means that bad
(i) 3rd
things will happen.
2230 Open answers
3 Open answers
Chapters 1113
(a) Birds show that Moby Dick is near.
Captain Ahab loses his
whalebone leg when he fights
Moby Dick.
Ropes kill Fedallah and Captain
Ahab.
Ishmael climbs onto Queequegs
coffin after the Pequod goes
down. It saves his life.
Captain Gardiners men
think that Ishmael is
their captains lost son.
(b) Open answers
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ACTIVITIES AFTER READING THE BOOK Chapters 78
(a) Elijah says that Ahab is the Devil /
(a) They lose the whale because of
Queequeg and Fedallah can see
him.
the future / Ahabs dream / the
(b) Pip thinks that Captain Ahab is
bird takes Ahabs hat / the bad
God.
weather
(c) Captain Ahab stops the ship and
(b) Open answers changes the barrels.
(d) a harpoon rope
ACTIVITIES BEFORE READING THE BOOK
(e) sharks
(a) pages 19, 31
(f) a coffin
(b) page 11
(g) Pip
(c) page 7
(h) Starbuck
(d) page 19
(i) Queequeg
(e) page 7
(f) pages 7, 11, 15, 25, 31 Chapters 910
ACTIVITIES WHILE READING THE BOOK 1 (a) 4
(b) 6
1 (a) does not come
(c) 3
(b) Queequeg
(d) 5
(c) sick
(e) 2
(d) laugh
(f) 7
(e) quiet
(g) 1
(f) leg
(g) other whales 2 (a) R
(h) Pip (b) R
(c) W
2 (a) tired
(d) W
(b) strange
(e) W
(c) afraid
(f) W
(d) happy
(g) R
(e) interesting
(f) angry Chapters 1113
(g) excited
1 (a) 2
(h) crazy
(b) 3
Chapters 46 (c) 4
(d) 1
1 (a) Fedallah
(b) Stubb 2 (a) Starbuck
(c) Starbuck (b) beautiful
(d) Ishmael (c) not sad
(e) Captain Boomer (d) one
(f) Captain Ahab (e) cold
(g) Fedallah (f) with a rope around his body
(h) Fedallah (g) days
2 (a) N 3 afraid
(b) N
(c) N ACTIVITIES AFTER READING THE BOOK
(d) Y
(e) N 13 Open answers
(f) Y
(g) Y
(h) Y

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