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Question

In a short story, residents of a town only care about these objects and cabbages, and are horrified when the Devil corrupts one of them. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these objects central to the short story “The Devil in the Belfry.” In another story, an ebony-colored one of these objects appears in the last of seven different-colored rooms.

ANSWER: clocks (The second story is “The Masque of the Red Death”.)

[10e] This author wrote the stories “The Devil in the Belfry” and “The Masque of the Red Death.” He also wrote “The Tell-Tale Heart.”

ANSWER: Edgar Allan Poe

[10m] In Poe’s short story “A Predicament,” Signora Zenobia gains this condition due to a clock. In a short story by a different author, Brom Bones pretends to have this physical condition to scare Ichabod Crane.

ANSWER: being headless [accept any answer indicating a person without a head; prompt on being dead or being a ghost] (The second story is “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving.)

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges	fall	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	9	17.78	100%	67%	11%
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois	fall	Y	9	20.00	100%	78%	22%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	7	18.57	100%	71%	14%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	8	22.50	100%	100%	25%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	10	22.00	100%	80%	40%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	9	18.89	100%	78%	11%

Data


UCLA C	UCLA B	0	10	10	20
UCLA D	UCLA E	0	10	10	20
Claremont C	UCSD	0	10	10	20
Binghamton A	Cornell C	10	10	10	30
Claremont B	UCLA A	0	10	10	20
Binghamton C	Cornell G	0	10	10	20
RIT B	Cornell D	0	10	10	20
Syracuse	Cornell E	0	10	10	20
Cornell F	U of Rochester A	0	10	10	20
Cornell B	ESF	0	10	0	10
Penn State	Cornell A	0	10	10	20
U of Rochester B	RIT A	0	10	0	10
RIT C	Binghamton B	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Illinois D	0	10	10	20
Northwestern A	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
Illinois A	Iowa B	10	10	0	20
Indiana	Purdue B	0	10	10	20
Iowa A	Northwestern B	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame A	Illinois B	10	10	10	30
Illinois C	Purdue A	0	10	10	20
SIUE	WashU A	0	10	0	10
WashU B	Notre Dame C	0	10	10	20
Columbia A	Columbia B	10	10	10	30
Penn A	Fordham A	0	10	0	10
Lehigh B	Maryland B	0	10	10	20
NYU A	Maryland A	0	10	10	20
Penn B	Rutgers A	0	10	10	20
Princeton A	NYU B	0	10	10	20
Rowan A	Rutgers B	0	10	0	10
CWRU A	Miami C	0	10	10	20
Michigan D	CWRU B	0	10	10	20
Michigan State A	Miami B	0	10	10	20
Michigan C	Michigan State B	0	10	10	20
Ohio State A	Miami A	10	10	10	30
Michigan A	Ohio State C	0	10	10	20
Jefferson County Scholars	West Virginia A	10	10	10	30
Michigan B	West Virginia B	0	10	10	20
Auburn A	Belmont	0	10	10	20
Emory A	Clemson B	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech B	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Clemson A	Georgia Tech E	0	10	10	20
Mississippi State A	Georgia A	0	10	10	20
South Carolina A	Georgia Tech C	0	10	10	20
Auburn B	South Carolina B	10	10	10	30
Southern	Vanderbilt A	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt B	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech B	Appalachian State A	0	10	10	20
Appalachian State B	William & Mary	0	10	0	10
Duke B	James Madison A	0	10	10	20
Liberty B	James Madison B	0	10	10	20
UNC C	NC State	0	10	10	20
Liberty A	Tusculum	10	10	10	30
UNC D	UNC A	0	10	10	20
UNC B	Virginia Tech A	0	10	0	10
Virginia	Duke A	0	10	10	20