Answers to activities in the reader

PRE-READING ACTIVITIES (page 7)

1 1. harpoon 5. rope

2. rescued 6. protected

3. fever 7. bones

4. coin

2 Accept all logical and grammatically correct answers.

CHAPTERS 1-2 ACTIVITIES (pages 14-15)

1 impressed candle become blanket sunlight crazy

1. sunlight 4. impressed

2. become 5. crazy

3. blanket 6. candle

2 1. d 2. c 3. a 4. b

3 1. Because he was unhappy with his life in New York. He wanted an interesting life and a new job.

2. Kwee-Kweg was enormous, had frightening tattoos all over his body, and was carrying a hatchet.

3. He took the hatchet from the table and wanted to kill Ishmael.

4. Because he was one of the proprietors of a whaling ship called the Pequod, and the two men wanted to join his next voyage.

5. He threw his harpoon over the head of the proprietor and across the ship’s deck. It went straight into the centre of the oil.

6. Captain Ahab lost a leg in a fight with the great white whale, Moby Dick.

4 1. Kwee-Kweg 4. Stubb

2. Mr Coffin 5. Starbuck

3. Ishmael 6. Captain Ahab

CHAPTERS 3-4 ACTIVITIES (pages 22-23)

1 help coin battle weather calm excited

1. weather 4. help

2. calm 5. excited

3. battle 6. coin

2

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1. join 4. bright

2. disappeared 5. hole

3. missed 6. danger

3 1. He learned that one of Captain Ahab’s legs was artificial and he had a frightening, long mark down one side of his face. Maybe he got it from Moby Dick.

2. Stubb wanted Captain Ahab to put something over his wooden foot because the noise irritated him. The suggestion made Ahab angry and he almost hit Stubb.

3. The captain offered the prize of a Spanish gold coin.

4. When the men are near a whale, they leave the ship and go into harpoon boats to hunt the whale.

5. The boat hit a rock and turned over. Ishmael

and the other sailors in the boat fell into the water.

4 1. d 2. e 3. f 4. a 5. b 6. c

CHAPTERS 5-6 ACTIVITIES (pages 30-31)

1 1. got caught 4. shouted at

2. kept his promise 5. cut off

3. tied round

2 rope death wide rescue shark valuable

1. valuable 4. death

2. rope 5. shark

3. wide 6. rescue

3 1. Because he brought special sailors from the Philippines to help in the hunt for Moby Dick. He always went with these other sailors to hunt whales. He didn’t protect the ship.

2. He thinks it’s too dangerous because one of his sailors was killed by Moby Dick.

3. Stubb needed Pip to help in his boat because one of his sailors hurt his hand. When a whale went under the boat, Pip was frightened and jumped from the boat. He almost died, but he was rescued.

4. Stubb kept his promise in the beginning, but after some time, the Pequod finally rescued Little Pip.

5. He felt sorry for Pip because both of them understood about death. Little Pip started to live in the captain’s cabin. They became good friends. When the captain needed help, Little Pip helped him.

4 1. F 2. F 3. T 4. F 5. T 6. T

5 1. Sharks try to eat dead whales.

2. They did it because the whale oil in the head was very valuable.

4. Little Pip didn’t want to go in a harpoon boat but sometimes the officers needed an extra man.

CHAPTERS 7-8 ACTIVITIES (pages 38-39)

1 1. a fever 4. a coward

2. a carpenter 5. a hook

3. earth

2 1. F 2. T 3. T 4. T 5. F

3 1. Because Captain Boomer had an artificial arm made of white bone, like Ahab’s leg. Ahab wanted to know if the captain lost his arm because of Moby Dick.

2. There were harpoons in Moby Dick’s tail. They belonged to Captain Ahab. He threw them at the whale in an earlier attack.

3. Captain Boomer believes it’s too dangerous to hunt Moby Dick.

4. He asked for a wooden box. He wanted to be in the box with his things when he died.

5. Because Pip feels he is a coward for jumping from a harpoon boat, and that he has dishonoured all sailors.

6. He says, “If I decide to live, then I will live. No fever can kill me if I don’t want to die.”

4 1. a 2. b 3. b 4. c

CHAPTERS 9-10 ACTIVITIES (pages 46-47)

1 1. c 2. e 3. d 4. b 5. a

2 1. piece 4. feeling

2. luck 5. bad sign

3. hidden

3 1. His twelve-year-old son was missing and he wanted to pay Ahab to let him use his boats for two days and search for his son.

2. Ahab refused to help the captain. He wanted to go after Moby Dick immediately and didn’t want to waste any time.

3. Because he was afraid Moby Dick might appear and the sailors might not see him. Ahab wanted to see the white whale before anybody else.

4. Birds often follow whales to eat some of their food. But superstitious sailors often see the birds as a bad sign.

5. Ahab took the huge tooth between his hands and tried to pull it out with all his strength. Then the boat broke in two.

6. The Pequod sailed between Moby Dick and the men in the water. The sailors on the ship pulled the other men out of the water.

4 A. 3 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4 E. 1 F. 2

CHAPTERS 11-12 ACTIVITIES (pages 56-57)

1 1. stay 4. put

2. circle 5. shake

3. survive3 1. They were very excited. If anybody had doubts about the fight, they forgot them. Every sailor was prepared to put his life in danger.

2. He answers, “It’s our destiny to hunt this whale until we kill him or he kills us.”

3. The sailors worked hard to repair the boats for the battle the next day. The carpenter also worked hard to make a new leg for

Ahab.

4. He knows he might not return.

5. Three of Ahab’s men were thrown into the water. Two climbed into the boat again. The third man sank to the bottom of the sea.

6. He held Kwee-Kweg’s box in the water until the Rachel rescued him.

4 1. e 2. d 3. f 4. b 5. c 6. a

Whale Food (page 65)

1 1. sound

2. Sonar

3. organisms

4. algae

5. krill

6. health