Question
Ama Ata Aidoo’s play Anowa is inspired by a Ghanaian folktale about a woman refusing to marry suitors from her parents only to marry this figure in disguise. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this figure that Aidoo based the slave trader Kofi Ako as in Anowa. This personification of evil reigns in hell in the epic poem “Paradise Lost.”
ANSWER: the Devil [or Satan or Lucifer]
[10m] In Anowa, an unnamed old man and woman perform this role in the play. In ancient Greek plays, a group of actors performed this role by commenting and singing about the play generally while off-stage.
ANSWER: chorus
[10h] This author also depicted the struggles of post-colonial families in the play I Will Marry When I Want. This Kenyan author wrote the novels A Grain of Wheat and Weep Not, Child in English before writing solely in Gikuyu.
ANSWER: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (“n-GOO-gee”) [or James Ngugi]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 100% | 78% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 21.25 | 100% | 100% | 13% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 26.67 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 11 | 21.82 | 100% | 73% | 46% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 20.00 | 100% | 89% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 21.25 | 100% | 75% | 38% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
Data
| Binghamton A | Cornell E | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Binghamton C | Binghamton B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell B | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell C | Cornell D | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| ESF | Cornell F | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| U of Rochester A | Penn State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell G | RIT A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| RIT B | Syracuse | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| U of Rochester B | RIT C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Miami B (UG) | Jefferson County Scholars (DII) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Michigan A (UG) | CWRU C (UG) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Michigan B (UG) | Michigan D (UG) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Michigan C | West Virginia A (UG) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| West Virginia B (UG) | Ohio State A (UG) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| CWRU A (UG) | Ohio State B (DII) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Miami A (UG) | Ohio State C (DII) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Michigan State A | Miami C (DII) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Alberta | UW Envy | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UW Chastity | Arizona State A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Arizona State B | UW Wrath | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| UBC A | UW Gluttony | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| UBC B | UW Greed | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| UW Pride | UW Lust | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Georgia Tech E | Auburn C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Furman | Clemson A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Emory A | Auburn A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech B | Georgia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech D | Southern | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Tennessee A | South Carolina B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Tennessee A | South Carolina B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Tennessee A | South Carolina B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Tennessee A | South Carolina B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Tennessee A | South Carolina B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Tennessee A | South Carolina B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Tennessee A | South Carolina B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Tennessee A | South Carolina B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Tennessee B | South Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Tennessee B | South Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Tennessee B | South Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Tennessee B | South Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Tennessee B | South Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Tennessee B | South Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Tennessee B | South Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Tennessee B | South Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Alabama A | Vanderbilt B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | Mississippi State A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Liberty B | Appalachian State A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Liberty C | Appalachian State B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UNC A | James Madison A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| James Madison B | NC State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| VCU | Liberty A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Tusculum | Duke A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia | UNC B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UNC C | UNC D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Virginia Tech A | William & Mary | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| UCLA E | Claremont B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UCLA A | Claremont C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UCLA D | Claremont A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UCSD | UCLA C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UCLA B | USC | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia J (DII) | Columbia B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Rutgers A (UG) | Fordham A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maryland A (DII) | Penn B (DII) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Penn A (DII) | NYU A (UG) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maryland B (DII) | NYU B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Lehigh A (UG) | Princeton A (UG) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rowan A (DII) | Lehigh B (DII) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers B | Bard A (UG) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Illinois C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Illinois D | Purdue C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Iowa A | WashU A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Illinois A | Notre Dame A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Northwestern B | Notre Dame B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Notre Dame C | Iowa B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Purdue A | SIUE | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Purdue B | Northwestern A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Illinois B | WashU B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |