Question
A woman disappointed by her silver-mining husband leaves on horseback to visit the Chilchui natives, but is ritually sacrificed by them in this author’s controversial “The Woman Who Rode Away.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author who also wrote about a woman coming to the realization that she never really knew her drunkard husband while cleaning his corpse after earlier suspecting him of being at the Prince of Wales pub.
ANSWER: D. H. Lawrence [or David Herbert Lawrence] (The story is “The Odour of Chrysanthemums.”)
[10m] A woman who has a “hard little place” in her heart “married for love” but had “the love [turn] to dust” in this Lawrence short story. In this story, her son Paul predicts “It’s Malabar!” before dying.
ANSWER: “The Rocking-Horse Winner”
[10e] After a war injury renders her husband paralyzed and impotent, Constance has an affair with the groundskeeper Oliver Mellors in this Lawrence novel that was the subject of a landmark obscenity trial.
ANSWER: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 3 | 26.67 | 100% | 100% | 67% |