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In this novel’s final chapter, a group of men is led past a “little round hole in the red-earth wall” by a man who repeatedly asks “perhaps your men can help us.” This novel’s protagonist realizes that people “would not go to war” after he attacks a man who came to stop a town meeting. (20[2])This novel ends with a character (20[2])pondering whether a man might be subject of (20[1])“perhaps not a whole chapter (20[3])but a reasonable (20[1])(*) paragraph” (10[2])in (10[1])“The Pacification (10[1])of the Primitive (10[1])Tribes,” (10[2]0[2])a book being (0[1])written (0[1])by the (10[1])District Commissioner. (10[2]0[1])A character in this novel (0[1])who spends seven years in exile (10[1]0[1])for killing Ezeudu’s (“eh-zay-OO-doo’s”) son (10[2])eventually (10[1])hangs himself (10[1])in the town of Umuofia (10[2])(“oo-moo-OH-fee-uh”). For 10 points, the suicide of Okonkwo (10[2])(“oh-KONK-woh”) concludes what novel by (10[1])Chinua Achebe (10[2]0[1])■END■ (10[3])

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Johnathon Franke GordonStevenson BHunter B6020
Aeres ZhouDetroit Country DayWoodland6020
Samuel LiThomas Jefferson DLincoln-Way East6820
Elliott LeeThomas Jefferson AThomas Jefferson B7320
Arjun KalaUniversity LabDunbar7320
Alvin GuoWinston Churchill ATroy7320
Nathan WuPlymouthRockford Auburn A7620
Omkar MaratheWilliam FremdBelmont7710
Tanay BodducherlaMira LomaRichard Montgomery7710
Michael ZhengIrvington AInnovation Academy A7810
Braden BoothDallas CountyBarrington A8010
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Monit KarmakerStevenson AHeights840
Camden WilliamsMexicoHinsdale Central840
Aditya ShivaswamySt. Mark'sHunter A8410
Clete ReinbergerCincinnati Hills ChristianWaukee8410
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Ryan DaiCarbondaleNew Brighton9010
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Ave RiegerNorthmont AMidtown9210
Riona DuncanWalter PaytonMaggie Walker C920
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Rohan DalalJohns Creek BThomas Jefferson C10310
Colette KendrickWinston Churchill BChattahoochee B10710
Matt MokrzyckiCarl SandburgParkway West10710
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David BertolasiBelvidereMoberly11010
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Varun VenkatagiriInnovation Academy BSaint Joseph11510
Uma MukhopadhyayChattahoochee ABarrington B12210
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Abigail AuYeungHinsdale CentralMexico12810
Russell DillakNorthmont BElkhorn North1280
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