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Question

Ada Limón imagines that she possesses “the huge beating genius machine” of one of these animals in the poem “How to Triumph Like a Girl.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these animals that “were drawn of blood” and “were bodies of sand” according to a Joy Harjo poem named for them.

ANSWER: horses [accept “She Had Some Horses”]

[10m] While in this city, Limón realizes that the titular “Miracle Fish” is moved by the “massive ocean inside me.” A Walt Whitman poem about a ferry in this city declares, “Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!”

ANSWER: New York City [or NYC; accept Brooklyn; accept “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”]

[10e] In another poem, Limón describes one of these birds as a “naked child swinging in the wind.” Edgar Allen Poe wrote a poem about one of these birds that croaks “Nevermore.”

ANSWER: raven [accept “Dream of the Raven;” accept “The Raven”]

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges	fall	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	9	13.33	100%	22%	11%
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois	fall	Y	9	15.56	100%	56%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	8	16.25	100%	38%	25%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	8	20.00	100%	88%	13%
2024 ACF Fall at Washington	fall	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	11	15.45	100%	36%	18%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	9	15.56	100%	56%	0%

Data


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