Think you’ve got your head wrapped around The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. How are the graves in the Quaker graveyard described?
Unkempt
Pristine
Just your average graves
Unmarked
Q. In Section 6, where are we?
At a shrine in England
Aboard the Pequod
Trying to stay awake
Nantucket
Q. What is one of the first images of the poem?
A white whale lashing the boat
A graveyard
A drowned sailor caught in a net
A bunch of sailors eating cheese
Q. What is the neologism Lowell uses to describe the world?
Waterclock
Spinplanet
Sorrowsea
Sadball
Q. What does Lowell say the Quaker sailors' bones are "crying out" for?
Peace
Flesh
A can of Coke
The white whale