Question
An essay states that on just one page of this novel, it scores “114 offenses against literary art out of a possible 115.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this novel in which Natty Bumppo refuses to marry Judith after the death of Tom Hutter. This novel is the prequel to The Last of the Mohicans.
ANSWER: The Deerslayer [or The Deerslayer, or The First War-Path] (by James Fenimore Cooper)
[10e] The Deerslayer was criticized in the essay “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses,” which was written by this author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
ANSWER: Mark Twain [or Samuel Langhorne Clemens]
[10h] Twain also criticized a passage in The Pathfinder in which characters shoot one of these objects 100 yards away. In Chapter 99 of a different novel, a man uses one of these objects [emphasize] on a different object inscribed with “REPUBLICA DEL ECUADOR: QUITO.”
ANSWER: nail [accept nail head; prompt on hammer by asking, “What did he use the hammer on?”] (The second clue refers to Ahab nailing the gold doubloon to the mast of the Pequod in Moby-Dick.)
<MM, American Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Missouri | WUSTL | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |