Question

In one novel, a boy in one of these locations burns curtains to get back at his father, who had beaten him for stealing a dollar. The protagonist of another novel learns that her mother Mabel couldn’t come back (-5[1])to one of these locations because she died from a snakebite. (15[1])In one of these locations, (15[1])the protagonist is tortured by Rufus Weylind after she time-travels there. (15[1])It’s not a house, but a woman in one novel slits the throat of her (*) daughter (10[1])in a woodshed to avoid returning (10[1])to one of these (10[1])locations. (10[3]-5[1])The sadistic Schoolteacher manages one of these locations named for Sweet Home, which the inhabitants of 124 Bluestone Road escape from in Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved. (10[1])For 10 points, Cora and Caesar escape from what type of location in Colson Whitehead’s novel The Underground Railroad where they had been slaves? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: slave plantation [prompt on house before mentioned; prompt on bedroom before “Mabel” is read, reject after]
<AK, American Literature>
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