All that most maddens and torments; all that cracks the body and cakes the brain; all the subtle demons of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, was visibly personified in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate that had been fermenting in his whole race from Adam down.

#19 The opposite of fermenting is:
a. Brewing
b. Fuming
c. Raging
d. Calming

#18 From context, you can tell that personified means:
a. Became a person
b. Having human qualities
c. Having a good personality
d. Employed a lot of people