Who is the narrator in Melville’s Moby Dick ?

Related Mcqs:

1. What does the narrator of the story about Rip describe as the great error in Rip’s composition ?

   A. His weakness for spirits
   B. That he is henpecked by his wife
   C. His love of town gossip
   D. His unwillingness to work

2. I took my visitors all over the house. I bade them search — search well. I led them, at length, to his chamber. I showed them his treasures, secure, undisturbed. The narrator is________________?

   A. Helping Robin to search for his uncle
   B. A detective
   C. Leading the police to the scene of a crime
   D. Helping the police to look for a letter

3. What does the narrator find at the end of the journey ?

   A. Field and works
   B. Crusted snow and dead leaves
   C. Hills and highways
   D. all are sleeping

4. For a time the narrator comforts Roderick by reading and painting with him; one of Roderick’s paintings is described as follows: “A small picture presented the interior of an immensely long and rectangular vault or tunnel, with low walls, smooth, white, and without interruption or device. Certain accessory points of the design served well to convey the idea that this excavation lay at an exceeding depth below the surface of the earth.” What later event in the story does this picture foreshadow ?

   A. The narrator and Roderick bury Madeline alive in a stone tomb beneath the mansion.
   B. The narrator and Roderick drown Madeline in the tarn next to the mansion.
   C. Roderick and Madeline escape the house via an underground tunnel.
   D. The narrator and Roderick become trapped in catacombs beneath the mansion.

5. The narrator returns home during the_______________?

   A. spring
   B. Winter
   C. fall
   D. summer

6. Who is the narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby (1925) ?

   A. Gatsby
   B. Nick
   C. Buchannan
   D. None of the above

7. Usher can only stand types of noises in his acutely uncomfortable state. The narrator describes a number of impromptus that Usher plays for him on which instrument ?

   A. The harp
   B. The guitar
   C. The ukulele
   D. The violin

8. The Primary Narrator for Books Eleven and Twelve of “Paradise Lost,” who relates future events is which of the following ?

   A. The Son
   B. Raphael
   C. Michael
   D. Adam

9. Which Romantic poet would be most likely to feature a main character or narrator in a poem who is heroic, tortured, cynical, highly emotional, and intelligent ?

   A. John Keats
   B. William Blake
   C. Lord Byron
   D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

10. Why was it important that slave narratives have a title page that claimed either that the narrative was written by the narrator himself (or his words were recorded by someone close to him, preferably white) ?

    A. So the author could get paid.
    B. In order for people to believe the events in the narratives.
    C. So that slave owners could refute the events in the narratives.
    D. So that the author could be assured he wouldn’t be recaptured.