Emily Dickinson - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

This poet wrote three letters to an unknown addressee only called “Master.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this poet who corresponded with Thomas Wentworth Higginson and wrote the line “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers.”

ANSWER: Emily Dickinson [or Emily Elizabeth Dickinson]

[10h] This poet of “Flaxman” wrote a letter calling then-dead Beethoven “Master” and had a biography written by Higginson. This author published a book originally titled “The Great Lawsuit” in a journal she edited.

ANSWER: Margaret Fuller [or Sarah Margaret Fuller or Margaret Fuller Ossoli]

[10m] Fuller and Dickenson appear during a tea party in this author’s play about Alice James, Alice in Bed. This author calls the title subject “good because it’s awful” in “Notes on ‘Camp.’”

ANSWER: Susan Sontag [or Susan Lee Sontag]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	23.33	100%	67%	67%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	7	15.71	86%	43%	29%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	7	11.43	86%	29%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	6	11.67	83%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	7	14.29	100%	43%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	10	13.00	90%	40%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	9	13.33	67%	44%	22%

Data


Miami	Indiana B	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame	Purdue C	0	0	0	0
Purdue B	UChicago B	10	0	0	10
Purdue D	UChicago D	10	0	0	10
UChicago A	SIUE A	10	0	0	10
Iowa	Central Oklahoma	10	0	0	10
McGill E	Vassar B	10	0	0	10
Texas B	Mississippi State	10	0	0	10
NYU A	WUSTL A	10	0	10	20
Oregon State	Texas D	10	0	10	20
Missouri	Texas A	10	0	10	20
Amherst A	A Brandeis Supreme	10	0	10	20
Bowdoin A	Clark A	10	0	0	10
Diamond Brandeis	BU B	0	0	10	10
Berkeley B	Stanford L	10	10	10	30
Columbia A	Rutgers A	10	10	10	30
Columbia B	Hopkins B	10	0	0	10
Penn B	Haverford A	10	0	0	10
Rutgers C	Penn State A	10	0	0	10
CWRU A (UG)	Kenyon B (DII)	10	0	0	10
Michigan A	CWRU C (UG)	10	0	10	20
Ohio State A (UG)	Michigan D (DII)	10	0	10	20
CWRU B (UG)	Ohio State C (DII)	10	0	0	10
Vassar A	Ole Miss	10	0	0	10
UF E	UF C	10	0	0	10
Cambridge C	Birmingham	10	0	10	20
Cambridge B	Durham A	10	0	10	20
Warwick A	Cambridge D	10	0	0	10
Edinburgh	Manchester	10	0	0	10
Imperial A	Oxford B	10	0	10	20
Bristol B	LSE B	10	0	0	10
Bristol A	Oxford A	10	0	0	10
Southampton A	Warwick B	0	0	0	0
Vanderbilt	Durham B	10	0	10	20
Stanford A	Berkeley C	10	0	0	10
Berkeley A	Stanford M	10	10	10	30
Princeton A	Bard A	0	0	0	0
Johns Hopkins A	Penn State B	10	10	10	30
Penn A	Lehigh A	10	0	10	20
UIUC A	WashU B	10	0	10	20
Northwestern A	WashU D	10	0	0	10
Michigan State A	Michigan State C (UG)	0	0	0	0
Michigan State B (UG)	Michigan B	10	0	0	10
UF B	Florida Tech A	10	0	10	20
UF A	Florida Tech B	10	0	10	20
UCF A	UCF B	10	0	10	20
Imperial B	Cambridge A	10	0	0	10
Carabrandeis	Harvard A	0	0	10	10
Tufts A	Northeastern A	10	0	0	10
Tufts B	MIT A	10	0	0	10
Yale A	Brandeises Brew	10	10	10	30
Yale B	Boston University A	10	10	0	20
Yale C	Brown A	0	0	0	0