Question
After the protagonist of a novel leaves a carnival with her lover and her daughter, she finds a young woman who has walked out of a stream and fallen asleep in front of this place. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this place, which is “spiteful” and “full of a baby’s venom” in the opening of a novel that describes how it scared away Howard and Buglar.
ANSWER: 124 Bluestone Road [prompt on the house from Beloved]
[10h] Miranda Silver disappears beneath her house, which is hostile to her black girlfriend Ore, in this author’s novel White Is For Witching. In a novel by this author, Bird searches for her white-passing stepsister, whom her mother had sent to Clara.
ANSWER: Helen Oyeyemi (The novel is Boy, Snow, Bird.)
[10e] The white townsfolk ostracize Marie Toussaint in a Tananarive Due novel about a haunted house known by this adjective. A Southern Gothic story by Flannery O’Connor claims a man described by this adjective “is Hard to Find.”
ANSWER: good [accept The Good House; accept “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”]
<CM, American Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 40% | 20% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Maryland | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA Online | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Texas | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| Birmingham | Cambridge B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cambridge A | Edinburgh | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Durham | Oxford | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Imperial A | Bristol | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Imperial B | Warwick | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |