American Literature CLEP Prep Practice Exam

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"Call me Ishmael" is the famous opening line of which novel?

Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
Moby-Dick
Crime and Punishment

The correct answer is: Moby-Dick

The opening line "Call me Ishmael" is from the novel "Moby-Dick" written by Herman Melville. While A and B are classic novels, their opening lines are "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" (Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier) and "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day" (Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë). D is a Russian novel written by Fyodor Dostoevsky with an opening line of "In the beginning the idea occurred to me.....".