Question
Eldridge Cleaver admired this character for having “no trace… of the Martin Luther King–type self-effacing love for his oppressors.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this character, who was attacked for being “designed to shock the whites out of their apathy” in a James Baldwin essay. This character is represented by the Communist lawyer Boris Max.
ANSWER: Bigger Thomas [or Bigger Thomas]
[10e] Bigger Thomas kills Mary Dalton and Bessie Mears in this 1940 novel by Richard Wright.
ANSWER: Native Son
[10h] This other author stated, “Bigger Thomas… is afraid, terribly afraid. But afraid of what? Of himself.” This thinker analyzed Mayotte Capécia’s novel I Am a Martinican Woman in a book whose first chapter is titled “The Negro and Language.”
ANSWER: Frantz Fanon [or Frantz Omar Fanon; or Ibrahim Frantz Fanon] (The unnamed book is Black Skin, White Masks.)
<Michael Bentley, Literature - American - Long Fiction> ~20499~ <Editor: Chandler West>
Summary
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Thomas Jefferson A | Barrington A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |