Round 12: Tossup 17

As a child, this character was visited by a “silent form” after being sent to bed early for trying to climb the chimney. (-5[1])A “prophet” named Elijah warns this character about an “ungodly, god-like man.” This character describes the “bridegroom clasp” of a man he later describes as “George Washington cannibalistically developed.” After rooming with that man at a hotel owned by Peter Coffin called the Spouter Inn, (10[1])this character is roused (-5[1])by Father Mapple’s (10[1])sermon about Jonah. (-5[2])This character is the only survivor of the Pequod’s destruction (10[1])by a whale. For 10 points, (10[1])what character’s (10[1])name follows (10[1])the words (10[1])“call me” (10[2])in the first (10[1])line of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick? ■END■ (10[2])

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