Phil Hackett contrasts his desire to strike out for a big city with how his father followed this man’s advice in a scene from Jessie Fauset’s novel The Chinaberry Tree. For 10 points each:
[10e] W. E. B. Du Bois criticized the accommodationist views of what author of the autobiography Up from Slavery?
ANSWER: Booker T. Washington [or Booker Taliaferro Washington]
[10m] This character quotes Washington’s advice to “cast down your bucket where you are” in a speech to a mocking audience about social responsibility. This character is sent to New York after chauffeuring Dr. Norton to a brothel.
ANSWER: the invisible man [accept the narrator or protagonist of Invisible Man]
[10h] This novel’s protagonist comes to hate social responsibility rhetoric while teaching at Naxos, a thinly-veiled version of Washington’s Tuskegee Institute. The half-Black, half-Danish protagonist of this 1928 novel ends up in Alabama after her sojourns in Chicago, Harlem, and Copenhagen.
ANSWER: Quicksand (by Nella Larsen)
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