Packet 7: Tossup 4

The protagonist of this novella sees a distant shape that he thinks resembles a “whitewashed monastery” in the Pyrenees with cloisters paced by Black Friars. This novella’s question, “you are saved; what has cast such a shadow upon you?” (-5[1])is the first epigraph (15[1])in Invisible Man. (15[1])In this novella, a character’s head (-5[1])is (15[1])stuck on a pole (15[1])and set facing a church after several pages (15[1])in the form (15[1])of a legal deposition. In this novella, (15[1])a man wrapped in a flag receives (15[1])a (15[1])(*) shaving (10[2])cut (10[1])from his servant (10[5])as he (-5[1])gives (10[3])confusing (10[1])answers about his voyage (10[1])from Cape Horn. (10[1])At the climax of this novella, (10[1])a canvas slips (10[1])to reveal the words “follow your leader” (10[1])painted below a skeleton mounted (10[1])as a ship’s (10[1])figurehead. For 10 points, Amasa Delano fails to notice a slave revolt (10[1])in what (10[1])Herman (10[1])Melville (10[3])novella titled for a Spanish captain? (10[1])■END■ (10[2]0[9])

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