Round 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?” is the first epigraph in Invisible Man. In this novella, a character’s head is stuck on a pole and set facing a church after several pages in the form of a legal deposition. In this novella, a man wrapped in a flag receives a (*) shaving cut from his servant as he gives confusing answers about his voyage from Cape Horn. At the climax of this novella, a canvas slips to reveal the words “follow your leader” painted below a skeleton mounted as a ship’s (10[1])figurehead. For 10 points, Amasa Delano fails to notice a slave revolt (10[1])in what Herman Melville novella titled for a Spanish captain? ■END■

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