passing as white - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

Description acceptable. A woman describes this action by stating, “We shy away from it with an odd kind of revulsion, but we protect it,” in a conversation with her husband Brian. For 10 points each:

[10h] Identify this action that titles a novel that ends with Clare Kendry falling to her death after being exposed for performing this action.

ANSWER: passing as white [accept Passing; accept equivalents that describe hiding being black or pretending to be white]

[10m] This author wrote about a narrator who is told his father has “the best blood in the South” and attempts to pass as white after a lynching in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.

ANSWER: James Weldon Johnson

[10e] Coleman Silk passes as white in The Human Stain, a novel by this author who wrote numerous books featuring Nathan Zuckerman, as well as Portnoy’s Complaint.

ANSWER: Philip Roth [or Philip Milton Roth]

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
Canada	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	13	9.23	62%	8%	23%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	4	2.50	25%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	8.57	57%	14%	14%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	14.00	80%	40%	20%
North	Main	Y	10	10.00	70%	20%	10%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	8.00	80%	0%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	12.50	50%	75%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	12	12.50	83%	25%	17%
South Central	Main	Y	5	12.00	80%	0%	40%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	11.67	75%	25%	17%
UK	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	13.75	75%	38%	25%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	15.00	75%	50%	25%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	14	9.29	64%	14%	14%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	12.50	100%	0%	25%

Data


UCSC	Berkeley C	0	0	0	0
Berkeley D	Stanford A	0	10	10	20
Berkeley E	Stanford B	0	10	10	20
Berkeley F	Berkeley A	0	0	10	10
Berkeley B	Stanford C	0	10	10	20
UCLA D	UCLA A	0	10	10	20
Queen's B	Guelph B	0	0	10	10
Guelph A	McMaster A	10	0	10	20
Toronto E	McMaster B	0	0	0	0
Toronto H	McMaster C	10	0	10	20
Queen's A	Carleton	0	0	0	0
Toronto D	Toronto A	0	0	10	10
Toronto B	Ottawa	10	10	10	30
McGill A	Toronto C	0	0	10	10
Toronto J	Toronto F	0	0	10	10
Toronto K	Toronto I	0	0	10	10
Toronto G	Toronto Metropolitan	0	0	0	0
Waterloo	Western Ontario	0	0	0	0
FIU	UCF B	0	0	0	0
FSU	UF B	0	0	0	0
UF C	Melbourne A	0	0	0	0
UCF A	UF D	0	0	10	10
CWRU B	CWRU D	0	0	10	10
CWRU C	Pitt C	0	0	10	10
Kenyon A	MSU A	0	0	0	0
CWRU A	OSU A	0	0	10	10
Kenyon B	OSU B	0	0	0	0
Pitt B	OSU C	0	0	0	0
Pitt A	OSU D	10	10	10	30
McGill B	McGill C	0	0	0	0
North Carolina B	Clemson A	0	10	10	20
NC State	Clemson B	0	0	0	0
Liberty B	South Carolina B	0	0	10	10
Tennessee A	Virginia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Liberty A	Virginia B	0	10	10	20
North Carolina A	Tusculum	10	10	10	30
Liberty C	Roanoke	0	0	0	0
Virginia Tech A	Tennessee B	0	0	10	10
Virginia A	South Carolina A	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame E	George Mason A	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins C	Johns Hopkins B	0	0	10	10
Maryland C	Maryland A	0	0	10	10
Catholic University	George Mason B	0	0	0	0
George Washington B	George Mason C	0	0	0	0
Georgetown A	George Washington A	0	10	10	20
Georgetown B	Johns Hopkins A	0	0	10	10
Maryland D	UMBC A	0	0	0	0
NYU A	VCU A	10	10	10	30
Penn A	NYU B	0	0	10	10
Swarthmore A	Columbia A	0	0	10	10
Rutgers C	Columbia B	0	0	10	10
Rutgers B	Columbia C	0	0	10	10
Princeton A	Rowan A	0	0	10	10
Lehigh B	Vassar A	0	0	0	0
North Carolina C	James Madison	0	0	10	10
Missouri B	SIUE	0	10	0	10
WashU D	Truman State	0	0	0	0
WashU A	WashU C	0	10	10	20
Missouri A	William Woods	0	10	10	20
Chicago B	Chicago C	0	0	0	0
Chicago D	Illinois B	0	0	0	0
Illinois A	UIC	10	10	10	30
Indiana A	Michigan B	10	10	10	30
Illinois C	Kentucky	0	0	10	10
Indiana B	Michigan C	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame A	Chicago A	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame B	Notre Dame C	0	0	10	10
Louisville A	Notre Dame D	0	0	10	10
Michigan A	Purdue A	0	0	10	10
Purdue B	Michigan D	0	0	10	10
Louisville B	Purdue C	0	0	10	10
Minnesota B	Macalester B	0	0	10	10
Iowa State	Carleton	10	0	10	20
Minnesota A	Nebraska	0	0	10	10
Macalester A	Wisconsin	10	0	10	20
Minnesota C	St. Thomas	0	0	0	0
Amherst B	BC A	0	0	0	0
BC B	Amherst A	0	0	10	10
MIT A	BU	0	10	10	20
Brown C	Bowdoin A	0	0	10	10
Tufts A	Brandeis Clemenceau	0	0	10	10
Harvard	Tufts B	0	10	10	20
Williams	Brandeis Lloyd George	0	0	10	10
Brandeis Orlando	Bowdoin B	10	0	0	10
Brandeis Wilson	Dartmouth	0	0	10	10
Yale A	Brown A	10	10	10	30
Cornell-UG	Brown B	0	0	10	10
Yale B	MIT B	0	0	0	0
British Columbia C	Alberta	0	0	10	10
Simon Fraser	British Columbia D	10	0	10	20
Washington A	British Columbia A	0	10	10	20
Washington B	British Columbia B	0	0	10	10
Texas B	Tulsa	0	0	10	10
Arizona State A	Northwestern C	0	10	10	20
Alberta B	Northwestern B	10	10	10	30
McGill D	Rose State	0	0	10	10
Texas A	Northwestern A	0	10	10	20
Ohio	UTD A	10	0	10	20
UTD B	Arizona State B	0	0	0	0
Iowa	UCO	0	0	0	0
Huntsville B	Alabama A	0	0	0	0
Huntsville A	Auburn A	0	0	10	10
Auburn B	Georgia Tech D	0	0	0	0
Alabama B	Sewanee A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	UAB A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech C	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt A	Mississippi State A	0	0	10	10
Bruin A	Vanderbilt B	10	10	10	30
Warwick A	Birmingham A	0	0	10	10
Bristol A	Oxford A	10	0	10	20
City St George's A	Bristol B	0	10	10	20
Oxford B	Cambridge B	0	0	10	10
Durham B	Sheffield C	0	0	0	0
Edinburgh A	Cambridge C	0	0	10	10
Imperial C	Imperial B	0	0	0	0
Sheffield A	Manchester A	10	10	10	30
LSE B	Southampton B	0	0	0	0
Edinburgh B	Sheffield B	0	0	10	10
Imperial A	LSE A	0	0	10	10
Cambridge D	Manchester B	0	0	0	0
Cambridge A	Southampton A	0	0	10	10
Binghamton A	Binghamton B	0	0	10	10
Cornell-DII	Syracuse	10	0	10	20
RIT A	ESF	0	0	10	10
RIT B	Rochester	0	0	10	10
Warwick B	Durham A	0	0	0	0