Question
The protagonists of this novel travel to a lake they call “Glimmerglass” to search for the captive Indian woman Hist. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this 1841 novel that contrasts the naive, pious Christianity of Hetty Hutter with her resourceful and intelligent sister Judith.
ANSWER: The Deerslayer [or The Deerslayer, or The First War-Path]
[10e] Mark Twain complained that The Deerslayer was replete with “crass stupidities” like conveniently broken twigs in an essay attacking the “literary offenses” of this author’s Leatherstocking Tales.
ANSWER: James Fenimore Cooper [accept “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses”]
[10m] In The Deerslayer, Hurry Harry and Thomas Hutter are captured by this Indian people. Throughout the Leatherstocking Tales, Cooper frequently contrasts “good Indians” like the Delaware with this group of “bad Indians,” who are led by Magua in The Last of the Mohicans.
ANSWER: Iroquois [or Haudenosaunee; accept Hurons or Wendat or Wyandot; accept Mingoes] (The Iroquois and Hurons are distinct, but Cooper uses their names for the same people in The Deerslayer.)
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Cornell A | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |