Question
The Haymarket affair inspired this novel’s climax, during which Conrad Dryfoos is fatally shot while trying to negotiate the end of a streetcar driver strike. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this 1889 novel whose title comes from a line in Shakespeare’s King John. In this novel, Basil March works at the magazine Every Other Week.
ANSWER: A Hazard of New Fortunes
[10m] A Hazard of New Fortunes was written by this “Dean of American Letters” and author of Gilded Age novels such as The Rise of Silas Lapham.
ANSWER: William Dean Howells
[10e] In a review of this author’s work, Howells recalls reading this author’s story “The Story of a Year.” This Gilded Age author wrote Daisy Miller and The Portrait of a Lady.
ANSWER: Henry James
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 7 | 12.86 | 86% | 43% | 0% |
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| Cornell C | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Princeton A | NYU A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| NYU B | Rowan A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Penn A | Rutgers B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Haverford | Princeton B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Rutgers A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale A | Vassar | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |