Question
Two answers required. One of these characters awakes to find the other’s arm thrown over him “in the most loving and affectionate manner” as if he were that character’s wife. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these two characters, who first meet after one of them decides that a bench is too uncomfortable to sleep on. One of these characters obliges the other’s request to stop smoking his pipe in bed because he “ain’t insured.”
ANSWER: Ishmael AND Queequeg [accept answers given in either order; reject partial answers]
[10e] This author included the homoerotic symbolism of Ishmael and Queequeg sharing a marriage bed in the opening chapters of his novel Moby Dick.
ANSWER: Herman Melville
[10m] This other Melville character is described as a “fine specimen” who could have “posed for a statue of Adam before the fall.” Captain Vere orders this character’s execution after he murders John Claggart, the latter of whom accused him of mutiny.
ANSWER: Billy Budd [or Billy Budd]
<Ganon Evans, Literature - American - Long Fiction> ~20493~ <Editor: Chandler West>
Summary
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Barrington A | Thomas Jefferson A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |