Question
Random House shelved Sanora Babb’s book Whose Names Are Unknown due to its similarity to this other novel, but Babb’s book was released 65 years later in 2004. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this novel, whose last chapter depicts a woman who gave birth to a stillborn baby breastfeeding a grown man on the brink of starvation.
ANSWER: The Grapes of Wrath
[10e] Babb criticized this author’s novel The Grapes of Wrath for not being as “realistic” as hers.
ANSWER: John Steinbeck
[10h] A 2020 Jeanine Cummins novel titled for dirt preceded by this adjective was controversially compared to The Grapes of Wrath. This adjective is the first title word of a Stephen Vincent Benet poem that ends with the line “Bury my heart at wounded knee.”
ANSWER: American [or American Dirt; or “American Names”]
<Ganon Evans, Literature - American - Long Fiction> ~20826~ <Editor: Chandler West>
Summary
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 24 | 17.08 | 96% | 63% | 13% |
Data
| Barrington A | St. Mark's | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maggie Walker A | Canyon Crest | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maggie Walker C | Carbondale | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Dallas County | Solon | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Belmont | Detroit Country Day | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Thomas Jefferson B | Dunbar | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Belvidere | Elkhorn North | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Choate Rosemary Hall | Heights | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Thomas Jefferson D | Hinsdale Central | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Thomas Jefferson A | Hunter A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Irvington A | Chattahoochee A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Mira Loma | Johns Creek A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Creek B | Winston Churchill B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Hoover B | Maggie Walker B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Mercer County | Rockford Auburn B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Thomas Jefferson C | Mexico | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Carl Sandburg | Midtown | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Northmont A | Parkway West | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Kinkaid | Richard Montgomery | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rockford Auburn A | Winston Churchill A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Plymouth | Troy | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| University Lab | Detroit Catholic Central A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Walter Payton | New Brighton | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| William Fremd | Woodland | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |