Question
Mad Jack takes a “temperance pledge” until Cape Horn is far behind him in a novel by this author set on the U.S.S. Neversink. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author of the novel White-Jacket. In another novel by this author, the narrator remarks, “Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian” when sharing a bed with Queequeg in the Spouter Inn.
ANSWER: Herman Melville (The other novel is Moby-Dick.)
[10m] An anti-temperance meeting in this novel goes awry after a character kicks a performer into the audience, inciting a riot. At a murder trial in this novel, a lawyer uses fingerprints to prove the innocence of the Capello twins.
ANSWER: Pudd’nhead Wilson (by Mark Twain)
[10h] Robert Johnson advises Aunt Linda to “let [wine] turn to vinegar, and sign the temperance pledge” in this author’s novel Iola Leroy, in which the title character refuses to pass for white to marry Dr. Gresham.
ANSWER: Frances E. W. Harper [or Frances Ellen Watkins Harper]
<Literature - American Literature - Long Fiction>
Summary
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