Question

This author wrote “caches of old papers are like graves” in the story “A Beneficiary,” which is included in the collection Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black. In a novel by this author, Jacobus finds an unknown body which troubles the landowner Mehring. Bam owns a yellow pickup truck known as a bakkie in a novel by this author, which ends with Maureen running towards an unknown helicopter. (10[1])This author of The Conservationist wrote a novel in which the liberal white Smales family flees Johannesburg to the village of their black servant. For 10 points, which author’s novel July’s People depicts the aftermath (10[1])of apartheid in her native South Africa? (10[1])■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: Nadine Gordimer
<Literature - World Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Ivy Chen (DII)PrincetonSwarthmore B6510
Emily Bussa (UG)MarylandSwarthmore A10010
John Shelly (DII)RowanUniversity of Delaware A10710
Geoffrey Wu (UG)Columbia AColumbia B1080

Summary

2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers)10/14/2023Y475%0%0%90.67