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Question

In a poem by the author of “God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children,” a shepherd who is one of these people searches for his goat as the narrator searches for his son on the mountain opposite. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these people. In another poem, the speaker repeatedly commands to “put it on record” that he is one of these people in between catalogues of his distinguishing features.

ANSWER: Arabs

[10m] The author of “An Arab Shepherd Is Searching for His Goat on Mount Zion,” Yehuda Amichai, was described as “a challenge to me” by this Palestinian poet, who repeated the refrain “I am an Arab” in his poem “Identity Card.”

ANSWER: Mahmoud Darwish

[10e] Amichai describes the Arab Shepherd’s hands as these features, which title a Darwish collection about how one of these features “Dies of Thirst.” Langston Hughes wrote a poem in which “The Negro Speaks of” examples of these features like the Congo and the Euphrates.

ANSWER: a river [accept “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” or A River Dies of Thirst]

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2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	2	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	16.25	100%	50%	13%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	21.11	100%	89%	22%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	6	18.33	100%	67%	17%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	20.00	100%	63%	38%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	20.00	100%	67%	33%

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Michigan C	Ohio State D	0	0	10	10
Michigan A	Ohio State A	10	10	10	30
Michigan B	Oberlin	0	10	10	20
Ohio State B	Michigan D	0	0	10	10
Pittsburgh	Ohio State C	0	10	10	20
UCSD	P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B	0	0	10	10
UCLA A	Art of Premature Signaling	0	0	10	10
girl 15 whale i mean they	Caltech	0	0	10	10
Claremont A	UCSB	0	10	10	20
Claremont B	UCLA B	0	0	10	10
Belmont	Brandeis	0	0	10	10
BU	Brown	0	0	10	10
RIT	Harvard	0	0	10	10
Lexington	MIT	10	10	10	30
NYU B	Catholic University of America	0	0	10	10
Haverford B	George Mason B	0	0	10	10
Georgetown	George Washington	10	10	10	30
Haverford A	George Mason A	0	10	10	20
Rutgers	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	10	20
Maryland A	Johns Hopkins B	0	0	10	10
NYU A	George Mason C	0	10	10	20
NYU C	CWRU	0	0	10	10
Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	Billy's Bastion	10	10	10	30
Too much from you lately	Keeping Up With the Cardassians	10	10	10	30
Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	10	10	10	30
UW A	South Dakota School of Mines	0	10	10	20
Washington Connections	UW B	0	10	10	20
Egypt Airlines Haters	Quatumvirate	10	10	10	30
we need new names	Four Generalists in Search of a Power	0	10	10	20
Mahjonng Masters	Goober Gang	0	10	10	20
Gruh	Notre Dame + Epic Games	0	10	10	20
Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	Illinois Orange	10	10	10	30
Free Agents 1	MSJ	0	0	10	10
Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	Auburn 2026	0	10	10	20
Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles	0	10	10	20
evil women enjoyers	mongeese	0	10	10	20
Edinburgh	Cambridge	0	0	10	10
Manchester	Imperial B	0	10	10	20
Sheffield B	Lancaster	0	10	10	20
Sheffield A	Sheffield C	10	10	10	30
Imperial A	Warwick A	0	10	10	20
LSE	Warwick B	0	0	10	10
Warwick C	Birmingham	0	0	10	10
Carleton	Alberta	0	10	10	20
Arizona State University A	Arizona State University B	10	10	10	30
4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	0	10	10	20
Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	Even in Blacksburg There I Am	0	10	10	20
Master and Margaritaville	Somehow Paula Deen Returned	10	10	10	30
Illinois C	Chicago A	0	0	10	10
Illinois A	WashU Charmander	10	10	10	30
Chicago B	Illinois B	0	0	10	10
Missouri	SIUE	0	10	10	20
Truman State	WashU Squirtle	0	10	10	20
WashU Bulbasaur	Iowa State	10	10	10	30
McGill A	Simon Fraser	0	10	10	20
Ottawa A	Mac A	0	0	10	10
Toronto A	Toronto Metropolitan	10	10	10	30
Toronto B	Waterloo B	10	10	10	30
Waterloo A	Toronto C	10	10	10	30
Guelph	Toronto E	0	0	10	10
UBC	McGill B	0	10	10	20
Waterloo C	Toronto D	0	0	10	10