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Who wrote the novel Moby-Dick?

  1. Henry David Thoreau

  2. Herman Melville

  3. Mark Twain

  4. Ernest Hemingway

The correct answer is: Herman Melville

Herman Melville is the correct answer. Henry David Thoreau is incorrect because he was an American essayist, poet, and philosopher, not a novelist. Mark Twain is incorrect because he is actually famous for his novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Ernest Hemingway is incorrect because he wrote The Old Man and The Sea, but not Moby-Dick.