Question
Sir Trevisan flees from this character, who sits in a cave beside a corpse wallowing in its own “lukewarm blood.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this character who nearly convinces the Redcrosse Knight to kill himself.
ANSWER: Despair
[10e] Despair and the Redcrosse Knight appear in this epic by Edmund Spenser.
ANSWER: The Faerie Queene
[10m] A giant named Despair tries to convince the protagonist of this novel to kill himself. The protagonist of this novel also falls into a bog called the Slough of Despond.
ANSWER: The Pilgrim’s Progress [or The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come] (by John Bunyan)
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Summary
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| Northwestern A | Texas A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley B | Johns Hopkins A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia A | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale B | Rutgers A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| South Carolina A | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Indiana A | MIT A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Iowa State A | Penn State A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley A | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale A | Stanford A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Brown A | Maryland A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota A | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Imperial A | Florida B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| McGill A | Claremont A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Ohio State A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Vanderbilt A | Purdue A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell A | Duke A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | Florida A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |