Question

The narrator paints landscapes of this substance after recalling a trip from New York to see her grandmother in the story “To Da-duh, in Memoriam.” In a novel, this natural substance prompts nightmares of a dancing woman with a “shiny silver muzzle.” A poet who critiqued (-5[1])James Grainger’s Georgic poem on this substance (-5[1])described schoolchildren writing of the “alien experience” of “snow falling” on it in his book History of the Voice. A hot-air balloon at a mill that processes this (10[1])plant is stolen by Guy (“ghee”), leading (10[1])to his death, in the story “A Wall of Fire Rising.” Sebastien (10[1])Onius (10[1])harvests (10[1])this plant in a novel (10[1])by (10[1])Edwidge Danticat (10[1])that (10[1])likens its industry (10[2])to the “farming of bones.” (10[7])Both Beli and Oscar (10[1])Wao (10[1])are left to die in fields of this plant. For 10 points, what plant titles a multi-genre book of vignettes and poetry by Jean (“zhawn”) Toomer? ■END■ (10[2]0[3])

ANSWER: cane [or sugarcane; accept caña de azúcar; accept cane fields; accept The Sugar-Cane; prompt on sugar or azúcar] (The unnamed authors are Paule Marshall, Kamau Brathwaite, and Junot Díaz.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Joy AnHarvardMIT45-5
Joseph ChambersVirginiaNorth Carolina B52-5
Raymond ChenToronto BCornell A8010
Michael HundingIllinois AStanford8610
Tony ChenToronto ARutgers9810
Parth JagtapToronto CJohns Hopkins9910
Bryan UgazArizona StatePenn State10010
Thomas TibbettsUCFMichigan10510
Caleb OttWaterloo BYale10610
Eshan PantNYUUC Berkeley B10810
Albert Yingzhi NyangLSEFlorida10910
Guy IndoranteIowa StateTexas11210
Joel MilesMinnesotaVirginia Tech11210
Kevin WangGeorgia TechChicago B11710
Arjun KalaIllinois BVanderbilt11710
Justin HawkinsIndianaNorth Carolina A11710
Neal JoshiWUSTL AUC Berkeley A11710
Simon ZimmermanOhio StateRIT11710
Sharath NarayanNorthwesternChicago A11710
Amogh KulkarniGeorgia StateWUSTL B11710
Henry BonWinona StateMaryland12110
William GrogerColumbia BCornell B12210
Maude-Sophie LockmanOttawaBritish Columbia1480
Crow HeNorth Carolina BVirginia14810
Tai BelkeBritish ColumbiaOttawa1480
Mattias EhatammWaterloo AColumbia A1480
Charles YoungColumbia AWaterloo A14810