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Description acceptable. In John Updike’s Rabbit Redux, Rabbit reads this literary scene aloud while Skeeter ejaculates on his couch. This scene is described as an “ideal speech situation” in a chapter titled for “Antinomies of Modernity” by Paul Gilroy, who reads it as a reworking of the German idealist thought that Ottilie Assing introduced to the author. Prior to this scene, Sandy gives the narrator a “root” that will ward off harm if it’s kept on the right side of his body. In Chapter (10[1])X (“ten”) of a book, (-5[1])this scene is preceded by the line, (10[1])“You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.” This scene unfolds (-5[1])over two hours in a horse stable, and results in a sadistic (-5[2])man nicknamed “the snake” never harming the protagonist again. (10[2]-5[2])For 10 points, identify this climactic scene from Frederick (10[1])Douglass’s (-5[1])autobiographies, (10[3])in which he physically bests (10[1])the man he’s been leased (10[1])to. (10[3])■END■ (10[8]0[3])

ANSWER: Frederick Douglass’s fight with Edward Covey [accept battle or struggle or synonyms in place of “fight”; accept Mr. Covey, Edward, or descriptions like the slave-breaker, farmer, farm-renter, boss, or master in place of “Edward Covey”] (Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic compares the scene to Hegel’s master-slave dialectic.)
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2488%0%29%148.95

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Kevin ParkClaremont AIowa State A8310
Matt BollingerGeorgia Tech AMaryland A87-5
Ned TagtmeierChicago AOhio State A9410
William OrrYale BGeorgia Tech B117-5
William GrogerColumbia BRutgers B129-5
Vaishali SivaJohns Hopkins AFlorida B129-5
Matthew LehmannWUSTL ABrown A138-5
Alex PijanowskiPurdue AMinnesota B138-5
Shahar SchwartzUC Berkeley ANorthwestern A13810
Justin HawkinsIndiana ATexas A13810
Robert CondronChicago CNorth Carolina A14710
Andrew ZengStanford ACornell A148-5
Daniel SheinbergYale AFlorida A14910
Sean DoyleHouston AMichigan A14910
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia Tech BYale B14910
Steven YuanUC Berkeley BVanderbilt A15410
Ani PerumallaPenn State AVirginia A15910
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordPenn AIllinois A16010
Grace LiuMIT AMinnesota A16010
Aum MundheRutgers AWUSTL B16010
Jerry LinDuke AChicago B16110
Jonathan TranCornell AStanford A1610
Lexi TermanRutgers BColumbia B16110
Cormac BeirneMcGill ASouth Carolina A1610
Mateo Javier AcostaFlorida BJohns Hopkins A16110
Halle FriedmanNYU AImperial A16110
Mazin OmerHarvard AColumbia A16110
Dan NiCornell BToronto A16110
Puna EkkaMinnesota BPurdue A16110
Jack ObermanSouth Carolina AMcGill A1610
Connor MayersMaryland AGeorgia Tech A16110