Question

The protagonist of a work of this type dates Eudora during a year living in Mexico to escape McCarthyism. It’s not a comic but in a work of this type, the protagonist has a fling with the factory worker Ginger in Connecticut after graduating from Hunter College High School, (15[2])where she was (15[1])friends (15[1])with a group called “the Branded.” (15[1])A term that combines (15[1])“myth” with this genre (15[1])was coined (15[1])to describe the book (-5[1])(*) Zami. (-5[1])A work of (10[1])this (10[1])type (-5[2])ends with the birth of the protagonist’s son after she becomes a cable car (10[1])conductor (10[1])in San (10[1])Francisco. (10[8])The first of a seven-volume series in this genre chronicles (10[1])the narrator’s life in Stamps, (10[1])Arkansas (10[2])with her brother Bailey (10[1]-5[1])and her childhood rape by (10[1])Mr. Freeman. That work in this (10[1])genre (10[1])takes its title from a Paul Lawrence Dunbar poem. For 10 points, name this genre of Maya Angelou’s I Know (10[1])Why (10[1]-5[1])the Caged (10[1])Bird (-5[1])Sings. ■END■ (10[4]0[3])

ANSWER: autobiography [or memoir; accept biomythography; reject “biography”]
<CM, American Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Dash RumbleBowdoin AClark Wilson4815
Tony ChenToronto AMcGill A4815
Ned TagtmeierChicago AChicago B5115
Shahar SchwartzBerkeley PastBerkeley B5215
Andrew WangIllinois BlueIllinois Orange5815
Eve FleisigBerkeley AStanford6215
Raymond ChenToronto Disband the Club 2k24Waterloo Cloze6615
Gabe ForrestSquidward Community CollegeWashU6815
Kevin WangGeorgia Tech AGeorgia Tech C72-5
Braden BoothMissouriTruman73-5
William OrrYaleAmherst7610
Ariel FaederPittPenn State7710
Thomas TibbettsUCF AUF C78-5
Seraphina Charlotte FooCambridge AImperial A78-5
Eric ChangVirginia Tech CVirginia Tech B9210
Krish ChintaInnovation Academy AGeorgia Tech B9310
Caleb OttWaterloo BasicToronto Metropolitan A9510
Joy AnHarvardBowdoin B9610
Noah ChinVirginia Tech ANorth Carolina A9610
John McQueenSouth CarolinaNorth Carolina B9610
Leo LawUF AUF B9610
Parth JagtapToronto BWaterloo Aspidistra9610
Maude-Sophie LockmanOttawa AbsolomabsolomabsolomToronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha9610
Manu SankaranLambertGeorgia Tech D9610
Ryan HappelSIUENotre Dame9610
Yusuf BaigMcMaster ApocolocyntosisBidiiCarleton A10610
Albert NyangLSE AWarwick A11110
Cade ReinbergerRITMaryland11210
Clete ReinbergerValenciaFlorida Tech11210
Pranav JothiGeorgia Tech CGeorgia Tech A11610
Towery McNeilMississippi StateInnovation Academy B116-5
Andy HuffLSE BCambridge B12110
Edward KimJohns CreekMilton12710
Nicholas NguyenUF CUCF A12810
Madeline StrausTufts ABoston College B14810
Derek FinoClark HouseBowdoin C14910
Davis JohnsonPurdue BPurdue A149-5
Adsayan GaneshWarwick BWarwick C15110
Brendan BaumerUCF BUSF152-5
Karan ShomeBUTufts B1540
Dylan TanouyeTufts BBU1540
Fred GarveyTrumanMissouri15410
Addison WigginsUSFUCF B1540
Pratyusha SoniInnovation Academy BMississippi State15410
David MathewPurdue APurdue B15410
Owen IredaleImperial ACambridge A15410