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. To whom is the poem dedicated?
Lowell's Cousin Warren Winslow
Elizabeth Bishop
Captain Ahab
All the haters
Q. What happens to the body of the drowned sailor?
The other sailors bring him aboard and bury him on land
He stays in the net until the whale eats him
He turns into a zombie
The sailors weigh him down so he sinks
Q. Who is the Greek god of the sea?
Ahab
Orpheus
Bob
Poseidon
Q. The first sailors we meet are part of what fleet?
The Quakers
West Pacific
North Atlantic
Union Dead
Q. The drowning Quakers cry out what?
That God is still on their side
That God has forsaken them
That they wish they had become dentists instead
That the water is really cold