Question
While looking at a scratch that this character had given her, the protagonist of a novel thinks “I shall keep that. And it is not the mark of Cain.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify this character owned by Colonel Cary. In a Marian Engel novel, the archivist Lou meets this character, who becomes her eventual lover as she documents the colonel’s library on Cary’s Island.
ANSWER: the bear [accept the title character of Bear; accept black bear or ursid]
[10e] Fiona forgets her marriage to Grant in this author’s story “The Bear Came Over The Mountain.” This Canadian Nobel Laureate wrote “The Moons of Jupiter.”
ANSWER: Alice Munro [or Alice Ann Munro; or Alice Ann Laidlaw]
[10m] In this author’s poem “Bearhug,” the speaker wonders why “I give my emotion an animal’s name ... a dark squeeze of death.” Patrick Lewis plots to blow up a water filtration plant in this author’s novel In the Skin of a Lion.
ANSWER: Michael Ondaatje (“on-DAH-chee”) [or Philip Michael Ondaatje]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| WUSTL B | Penn A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |