In a novel titled for this region, a wife gets upset at her husband George for nearly getting hit by a train while freeing his niece’s trapped foot. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this region. In a short story titled for this region that ends with the illegal murder of a doe, a nearly 80-year-old hunter gives a horn and some money to a woman looking for the father of her bastard child.
ANSWER: Mississippi Delta [accept Delta Wedding; accept “Delta Autumn”] (The novel is Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty.)
[10e] That story, “Delta Autumn,” is from Go Down, Moses, a collection by this Mississippi author of The Sound and the Fury.
ANSWER: William Faulkner [or William Cuthbert Faulkner]
[10m] The story “The Old People” from Go Down, Moses ends with Ike McCaslin staying at Major de Spain’s mansion, which is also where this story by Faulkner is partly set. In this story, Abner Snopes gets revenge after being forced to pay for Major de Spain’s rug.
ANSWER: “Barn Burning”
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