Moby-Dick Study Guides
February 16, 2012
6:30pm - 8:00pm
Moby-Dick Elementary School Study Guide
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Moby-Dick Middle School Study Guide
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Moby-Dick High School Study Guide
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Study Questions for Moby-Dick
These study questions are to help you support your knowledge of Moby-Dick based on the video that you’ve just seen and to help you get to know the opera better. If you want, you might Google one of the questions or topics in order to broaden your knowledge of the opera.
- Who wrote the novel Moby-Dick?
- True or false: whales sing.
- Why does Captain Ahab seek revenge on the whale Moby-Dick?
- True or false: Jake Heggie, the composer of the opera Moby-Dick, set every word of the novel to music.
- Why was whaling so important in the 1800s? What was the product that whales produced that made whaling so vital to the United States?
- True or false: spermaceti is used as a lubricant for some of our most advanced space projects.
- How would you describe music that tries to create a “water like” atmosphere?
- If you were a composer, what instrument(s) of the orchestra would you use to describe a whale’s sounds?
- True or false: there is absolutely no whaling allowed in the United States today.
- What does the International Whaling Commission do?