Stephen Crane - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

This author’s novella “The Monster” inspired a biography that follows his romance with Cora Taylor. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this subject of the biography Burning Boy. This author included his poem about a “naked, bestial” creature “in the desert” in the collection The Black Riders.

ANSWER: Stephen Crane

[10h] This author said that Crane’s poem “In the Desert” was about “how persistently we cling to our own misery.” This author of Burning Boy wrote a trilogy that includes the novels Ghosts and City of Glass.

ANSWER: Paul Auster [or Paul Benjamin Auster]

[10e] In an interview with NPR, Auster claimed that this novel is about “the interior life of an adolescent boy.” This Crane novel follows the soldier Henry Fleming.

ANSWER: The Red Badge of Courage

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	6	13.33	100%	17%	17%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	13.33	100%	11%	22%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	15.00	100%	38%	13%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	8.00	80%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	9	11.11	89%	11%	11%

Data


Stanford A	Berkeley B	0	0	10	10
Stanford L	Stanford M	0	0	10	10
Auburn B	Auburn C	0	0	10	10
Auburn A	Tusculum A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech B	Tennesse A	10	10	10	30
Emory B	Georgia Tech C	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	South Carolina A	0	0	10	10
Lehigh A	Penn State B	0	0	10	10
Northwestern A	UChicago D	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame	UChicago A	0	0	10	10
Purdue A	UIUC C	0	0	10	10
Purdue C	UIUC D	0	0	10	10
UChicago C	Indiana A	0	10	10	20
UChicago B	UIUC A	0	0	10	10
UIUC B	Purdue D	0	0	10	10
WashU B	Purdue B	0	10	10	20
WashU D	SIUE A	0	0	10	10
Georgia A	Emory A	0	0	10	10
Iowa	Texas C	0	0	10	10
Missouri	McGill E	10	0	10	20
Central Oklahoma	Texas D	10	0	10	20
NYU B	Colorado College	0	0	10	10
Oregon State	NYU A	0	0	10	10
Texas A	Arkansas	10	10	10	30
Texas B	Vassar B	0	0	10	10
UW B	Alberta	0	10	10	20
UBC B	SFU	0	0	10	10
UBC A	UW A	10	0	10	20
Florida State University A	Florida Tech A	0	0	10	10
UF B	Florida Tech B	0	0	10	10
UF A	UCF A	0	0	10	10
UF F	UF C	0	0	0	0
UF E	UF D	0	0	10	10
Birmingham	Bristol B	0	0	10	10
LSE A	Cambridge A	10	10	10	30
Bristol A	Cambridge D	0	0	10	10
Imperial A	LSE B	0	0	10	10
Imperial B	Southampton A	0	0	10	10
Durham B	Oxford A	0	0	0	0
Oxford B	Cambridge C	0	0	10	10
Manchester	Southhampton B	0	0	10	10
Warwick A	Vanderbilt	0	0	10	10
Vassar A	WUSTL A	0	0	10	10