7
QuizMultiple Choice

Writing Workshop: Evaluating Sources That Support a Claim — Unit test

Question 7 • CA-Common Core English Language Arts 11 B Credit Recovery 5 Credits

Read the excerpt from Chapter 28 of Moby-Dick.It was one of those less lowering, but still grey and gloomy enough mornings of the transition, when with a fair wind the ship was rushing through the water with a vindictive sort of leaping and melancholy rapidity, that as I mounted to the deck at the call of the forenoon watch, so soon as I leveled my glance towards the taffrail, foreboding shivers ran over me. Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck.Which of the novel’s themes is best developed in this excerpt from Chapter 28 of Moby Dick?

Answer
A
a person’s ability to outsmart fate
B
a person’s harmony with nature
C
a person’s control over nature
D
a person’s inability to alter fate
Previous
Next