Question
In a novel by this author, a woman gives a lock of her hair as a love token to Mr. Willoughby, but she later becomes brokenhearted when he returns it to her in a letter. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author who wrote about the love lives of Marianne and Eleanor Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility.
ANSWER: Jane Austen
[10m] After Hetty Sorrel’s locket is broken during a dance, a lock of Arthur Donnithorne’s hair falls out, revealing their relationship, in this author’s novel Adam Bede.
ANSWER: George Eliot [or Mary Ann Evans]
[10h] In this novel, a lock of hair found in the grave of a Victorian poet actually belongs to his daughter and not his lover Christabel LaMotte, which the characters unearthing his grave thought was a love token.
ANSWER: Possession (by A.S. Byatt)
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Summary
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 50% | 13% |
Data
| Ohio State A | Chicago A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Michigan A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue A | Chicago C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Michigan B | Chicago D | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| SIUE B | Missouri | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Ohio State B | WUSTL | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue B | Purdue C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| SIUE A | Ohio State C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |