Question
This author depicted rival schools of elevator inspection and explored racial tension in the novel The Intuitionist. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author, who wrote a 2016 novel in which Cora and Caesar flee northwards, pursued by the vicious character Ridgeway.
ANSWER: Colson Whitehead [or Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead]
[10e] In The Underground Railroad, Cora and Caesar have this status before they escape. Harriet Jacobs, who inspired Cora, and Frederick Douglass wrote “narratives” depicting their time with this status.
ANSWER: enslaved [or slavery or slaves; accept slave narratives]
[10m] Whitehead’s novel The Nickel Boys is set at an abusive reform school in this state, based on the real-life Arthur G. Dozier School. Zora Neale Hurston set many of her works in this state’s town of Eatonville.
ANSWER: Florida [or FL]
<Literature - American Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 7 | 15.71 | 86% | 57% | 14% |
Data
| NYU A | Princeton | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU B | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Swarthmore A | Rowan | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Swarthmore B | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Fordham | Delaware B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Penn | Maryland | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU C | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |