Question
The title hero demands to be betrothed to Joy-Giving Girl while still a fetus in his mother’s womb in a poem from this country, Ibonia, which draws on its tradition of hainteny (hyne-TEN-y) poetry. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this country. The first modern poet in Africa is usually considered to be an author from this country who described a “bird of steel” that “lacerate[s] the clouds of morning” in his collection Dream-Images.
ANSWER: Madagascar (The modern poet is Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo.)
[10e] Ibonia is usually classified as a work of this genre. Other examples of this broad genre include the Nyanga people’s poem about Mwindo and the Malinke people’s poem about Sundiata.
ANSWER: epic [accept the Epic of Sundiata]
[10m] In Ibonia, the hero refuses many of these things that his mother tries to give him, saying that they are “children.” In an Egyptian tale, Isis uses a venomous serpent to coerce Ra into giving up one of these things.
ANSWER: names [accept secret names or ren]
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Summary
| 2023 BHSU @ Berkeley | 03/18/2023 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Maryland | 03/11/2023 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Northwestern | 02/25/2023 | Y | 6 | 21.67 | 100% | 100% | 17% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Sheffield | 04/15/2023 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Waterloo | 04/15/2023 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Fan-tastic Negs and Where to Find Them | Glass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland A | Rutgers Diaspora | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland B+ | The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Negs | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |