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Question

Amiable With Big Teeth, a novel about a group of activists from this neighborhood, remained unpublished until 2009 when it was discovered by a graduate student at Columbia University. For 10 points each:

[10e] Claude McKay wrote about black sex workers in the titular poem from his collection titled for this neighborhood’s Shadows. A poem by Langston Hughes titled for this neighborhood asks, “what happens to a dream deferred?”

ANSWER: Harlem [accept Harlem Shadows]

[10h] This poem from Harlem Shadows tells the reader “we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack” and responds “let it not be like hogs” to this poem’s title statement.

ANSWER: “If We Must Die”

[10m] McKay also wrote a novel titled for a city in this country in which the sailor Lafala falls in love with Alima. In a James Baldwin novel set in this country, the title character strangles his boss after a gay love affair with David.

ANSWER: France [or French Republic] (The novels are Romance in Marseille and Giovanni’s Room.)

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California	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
Canada	Main	Y	6	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	15.71	100%	43%	14%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	17.00	100%	50%	20%
North	Main	Y	10	20.00	100%	60%	40%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	20.00	100%	40%	60%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	9	22.22	100%	89%	33%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	5	24.00	100%	100%	40%
Southeast	Main	Y	11	20.00	100%	55%	46%
UK	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	20.00	100%	63%	38%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	16.25	100%	38%	25%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	11	17.27	100%	73%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%

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Berkeley D	Berkeley A	10	0	0	10
Berkeley E	Stanford C	10	0	0	10
Berkeley C	Berkeley F	10	0	10	20
Berkeley B	Stanford A	10	10	10	30
UCSC	Stanford B	10	0	0	10
UCLA A	UCSB	10	10	10	30
UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	Claremont Scripps	10	0	0	10
UCLA D	UCI	10	10	10	30
UCLA B	UCSD Vices and Virtues	10	10	0	20
UCSD What Hath God Wrought	UCLA C	10	0	0	10
USC	Claremont Pitzer	10	0	10	20
Melbourne A	FIU	10	0	10	20
UF B	ERAU B	10	0	0	10
UF D	FSU	10	0	10	20
USF	UF A	10	0	10	20
UF E	Melbourne B	10	0	0	10
ERAU A	UF C	10	0	10	20
CWRU A	MSU A	10	0	0	10
CWRU B	OSU D	10	0	0	10
CWRU C	Kenyon A	10	0	10	20
CWRU D	Kenyon B	10	0	0	10
OSU B	MSU B	10	0	10	20
OSU C	OSU A	10	10	10	30
Pitt B	Pitt C	10	0	0	10
Clemson B	Tennessee A	10	0	10	20
Tennessee B	Liberty A	10	0	0	10
North Carolina C	Liberty C	10	0	10	20
James Madison	North Carolina B	10	10	10	30
Roanoke	Virginia B	10	0	0	10
North Carolina A	South Carolina B	10	10	10	30
South Carolina A	Tusculum	10	0	10	20
NC State	Virginia A	10	0	0	10
Clemson A	Virginia Tech A	10	0	0	10
Liberty B	Virginia Tech B	10	0	0	10
George Mason B	Georgetown A	10	0	10	20
George Washington A	Johns Hopkins C	10	0	10	20
Maryland A	George Mason C	10	10	10	30
Maryland B	Penn A	10	10	0	20
NYU A	Catholic University	10	10	0	20
NYU B	George Washington B	10	0	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	Notre Dame E	10	0	10	20
Maryland D	Penn B	10	0	10	20
UMBC A	VCU A	10	10	0	20
Columbia A	Princeton A	10	10	10	30
Swarthmore A	Columbia C	10	10	10	30
Vassar A	Lehigh A	10	0	0	10
Rowan A	Lehigh B	10	10	0	20
Columbia B	Rutgers B	10	0	0	10
Maryland C	Georgetown B	10	0	0	10
Michigan A	Chicago D	10	10	10	30
Indiana A	Purdue C	10	0	10	20
Indiana B	Illinois A	10	0	10	20
Michigan B	Louisville B	10	10	10	30
Michigan D	Chicago A	10	0	0	10
UIC	Notre Dame B	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame D	Kentucky	10	0	10	20
Illinois B	Purdue A	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame A	Purdue B	10	0	10	20
Chicago C	Notre Dame C	10	0	0	10
Carleton	Minnesota C	10	0	10	20
Macalester A	Minnesota A	10	0	10	20
Macalester B	Iowa State	10	10	10	30
St. Thomas	Nebraska	10	0	10	20
Wisconsin	Minnesota B	10	10	10	30
Brown A	BC A	10	0	0	10
Brandeis Orlando	BU	10	0	10	20
Brandeis Clemenceau	Yale A	10	0	10	20
Amherst A	Brown C	10	10	10	30
MIT A	Brown B	10	10	10	30
Dartmouth	MIT B	10	10	10	30
Amherst B	Tufts A	10	0	0	10
Tufts B	Brandeis Wilson	10	0	0	10
Williams	Bowdoin A	10	10	0	20
Harvard	Yale B	10	10	10	30
British Columbia A	Washington B	10	0	10	20
Washington A	British Columbia D	10	10	10	30
British Columbia C	Simon Fraser	10	0	0	10
British Columbia B	Alberta	10	0	0	10
BC B	Brandeis Lloyd George	10	0	0	10
UTD A	Alberta B	10	0	0	10
Northwestern B	Arizona State A	10	10	10	30
Northwestern A	Arizona State B	10	10	10	30
Tulsa	Ohio	10	0	10	20
Iowa	Rose State	10	0	0	10
McGill D	Texas A	10	0	10	20
Texas B	Northwestern C	10	10	10	30
UTD B	UCO	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Alabama A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Alabama B	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Vanderbilt B	10	0	0	10
Vanderbilt A	Huntsville A	10	10	0	20
Bruin A	Huntsville B	10	10	0	20
Mississippi State A	Sewanee A	10	0	0	10
Auburn B	UAB A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Auburn A	10	0	10	20
Sheffield B	Birmingham A	10	0	10	20
Cambridge C	LSE A	10	0	10	20
Durham B	Sheffield C	10	0	0	10
Warwick B	Edinburgh B	10	0	10	20
Imperial B	Edinburgh A	10	0	0	10
Bristol A	LSE B	10	0	10	20
Lancaster A	Bristol B	10	0	0	10
Manchester A	Southampton A	10	0	10	20
Manchester B	Cambridge A	10	0	10	20
Oxford A	Imperial C	10	0	10	20
Imperial A	Cambridge B	10	0	10	20
RIT B	Binghamton B	10	0	0	10
ESF	Cornell-DII	10	0	0	10
RIT A	Rochester	10	10	0	20
Syracuse	Binghamton A	10	0	10	20