This character is affectionately called a “cochon de lait” (“ko-SHAWN duh lay”) and praised for his legs, hands, and “real fingernails” while his grandmother “scans [him] narrowly.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Identify this character, whose apparent similarity to a “quadroon” boy fanning him with peacock feathers causes his father Armand to expel him and his mother from their home.
ANSWER: Désirée’s baby [accept the infant or child or son of Désirée Valmondé]
[10e] This author explored race relations in Creole Louisiana in her story “Désirée’s Baby.” This author also wrote The Awakening.
ANSWER: Kate Chopin [or Katherine O’Flaherty]
[10h] “A Story of Creole Life” is the subtitle of this George Washington Cable novel that explores the relationship between Honoré and his quadroon half-brother, also named Honoré.
ANSWER: The Grandissimes [or The Grandissimes: a Story of Creole Life]
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