Packet 2: Tossup 2

An author wrote “boring chapters” about these animals “to save us from his own sad (15[1])story” according to an essay central to a Samuel D. Hunter play. A narrator compares anti-Linnean classifications of these animals among the Spouter Inn’s residents. (15[3])A weapon to kill these animals (15[1])is (-5[1])struck by (15[1])lightning and covered with (15[1])the blood of Daggoo (15[1])and Tashtego. (15[2])The corpse (15[1])of (*) Fedallah is attached to one of these animals during an event (10[1])the narrator survives by clinging to Queequeg’s (10[1])coffin. (10[4])In an 1851 (10[2])novel, (10[2])a white one of these (10[1])animals (10[1])destroys (10[1])the Pequod after being chased by Captain (10[1])Ahab. For (10[1])10 points, name these animals which include Moby Dick. ■END■

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