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Which detail leads the reader to predict that the sailors are whale hunting?

(A)No one knows how Captain Ahab got his scar.
(B)On the ship's quarterdeck there are holes for the captain's leg.
(C)The crew never speaks to Captain Ahab.
(D)Captain Ahab's fake leg is made of whalebone.


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Wei go four of five in the saga of ahab

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which detailed leads the reader to predict that the sailors

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are whale hunting Okay well we're hunting for details on

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whale hunting so if we go back to the main

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document here what's in here that looks like it could

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be about whale hunt because they don't really say anything

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about whales So hum while we're thinking and thinking well

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captain a have is on a secret mission We are

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told what it is or where he's going but we're

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asked to make a logical guess for this question You

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know he's sort of an oddball and that he's stubborn

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scarred and well scary We also know that his leg

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is made of whale bone If we were the betting

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sort we'd wager that he's out to harpoon a whale

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Got it So the fake leg made of whale bone

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and it's clear he's got a big that ivory chip

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on his shoulder He wants payback for right So that's

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it it's captain ahab fake leg is made of wilbon

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Alright loserville We'll have scar is mysterious and it doesn't

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do much to tell us what kind of a sailor

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he is So yeah it's not a there And while

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through that ship has holes to accommodate his peg leg

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and that crew avoids him Neither of these facts reveal

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the captain's line of work So it's None of those 00:01:16.717 --> [endTime] it's just tea that's it are

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