Question
The protagonist of a short story realizes she “cannot tell [this animal’s] secret and give its life away” after they had “watched the sea and the morning together.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this animal that is spotted from an oak tree by Sylvia, who at the end of that story decides not to reveal its location to a hunter who had offered 10 dollars.
ANSWER: the white heron [accept “A White Heron”; prompt on heron; prompt on bird or avian]
[10e] Sarah Orne Jewett’s story “A White Heron” was influenced by this author’s depiction of Maine in The Pearl of Orr’s Island. This author also wrote the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
ANSWER: Harriet Beecher Stowe [or Harriet Elisabeth Beecher]
[10h] This contemporary of Jewett referenced “A White Heron” with the character of Sylvia Crane in her novel Pembroke. This author of “The Revolt of Mother” wrote about Louisa ending her engagement in the story “A New England Nun.”
ANSWER: Mary Wilkins Freeman [or Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 20 | 16.50 | 100% | 65% | 0% |
Data
| Chicago A | Houston A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Virginia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Stanford A | Claremont A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| South Carolina A | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech B | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois A | MIT A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Florida A | Indiana A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Imperial A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt A | Maryland A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Brown A | Minnesota B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Northwestern A | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Harvard A | Penn A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers B | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto A | Purdue A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | UC Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| McGill A | Texas A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell A | Iowa State A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | Florida B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago C | Penn State A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |