Question
This novel’s creator vehemently insisted that it was “just a story about rabbits” and not an anti-war allegory. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this novel, in which Hazel leads Fiver and Blackberry as they flee humans’ destruction of the Sandleford warren.
ANSWER: Watership Down (by Richard Adams)
[10e] The narrator meets the hyper-rational horses Houyhnhnms (“HWIN-ums”) and the savage Yahoos in this author’s novel Gulliver’s Travels.
ANSWER: Jonathan Swift
[10h] An author from this country, NoViolet Bulawayo, was inspired by Animal Farm to describe the ousting of the “Old Horse” in a 2022 novel. That book, Glory, allegorizes a 2017 coup in this home country of Tsitsi Dangarembga (“t’SIT-see dan-gar-EMB-gah”).
ANSWER: Republic of Zimbabwe
<Chandler West, Literature - British - Long Fiction> ~20514~ <Editor: Jaimie Carlson>
Summary
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 5 | 24.00 | 100% | 100% | 40% |
Data
| Belmont | Hunter A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Thomas Jefferson C | Mira Loma | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| St. Mark's | Winston Churchill A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Kinkaid | Troy | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| University Lab | Plymouth | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |