A novel’s protagonist fantasizes of finding her mother homeless and kicking over her begging plate before learning that she died in this manner. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this cause of death of Cora’s mother Mabel in The Underground Railroad. Delia’s abusive husband Sykes dies in this manner in Zora Neale Hurston’s story “Sweat.”
ANSWER: snakebite [or snake attack; snake venom; or being bitten by a snake; prompt on venom or poisoning or animal attack]
[10m] A rattlesnake bite in a cave on Jackson’s island leads this character to hallucinate a conversation with Voltaire. Those events occur in Percival Everett’s 2024 reimagining of this 19th-century literary character’s story.
ANSWER: Jim [accept James] (He appears in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.)
[10e] Jim Burden saves the title Czech farmer’s daughter from a rattlesnake in this author’s novel My Ántonia.
ANSWER: Willa Cather
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