Think you’ve got your head wrapped around The Piazza Tales? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Which story references the Tower of Babel as a way to highlight prideful defiance of the Gods?
"The Encantadas"
"Bartleby"
"The Bell Tower"
"The Lightning-rod Man"
Q. The excerpts from Spenser's "The Fairie Queene" in "The Encantadas" are used
ironically, since the Galapagos are nothing like a fairy-land.
to show that the Galapagos are wooded and lovely.
because Spenser sailed with Melville to the islands.
as a way for Melville to show that he's way cooler than Spenser could ever be.
Q. When he finds out that Bartleby is dead, the narrator quotes from
the Book of Job.
Shakespeare.
Moby Dick.
Wikipedia.
Q. In "The Piazza", Melville mentions reading
Shakespeare's Midsummer's Night Dream, foreshadowing the dream of Marianna.
Orwin's House Construction, foreshadowing the construction of the porch.
Shakespeare's Hamlet, foreshadowing tragic death.
Shakespeare's The Tempest, foreshadowing the arrival of Oberlus.
Q. Abraham Cowley
was the founder of "Cowley's Enchanted Isle."
was a pirate and Buccanneer.
was a poet.
was a famous Satanist and magician.