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 ostracizes 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 or “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”]
<CM, American Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
Data
| Cornell MATLAB | Syracuse+Rochester | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cornell R | RIT | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |