Question
In one novel, a character with this profession states, “I am no bird, and no net ensnares me,” when her employer tries to stop her from leaving Thornfield Hall. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this profession which one character enters after she leaves Lowood School due to a typhus outbreak. That character educates Adèle Varens as part of this profession.
ANSWER: governess [prompt on nanny or babysitter or tutor]
[10e] The title character of this author’s novel Jane Eyre works as a governess. She published under the pen name Currer Bell as part of a group of three sisters.
ANSWER: Charlotte Brontë [prompt on Brontë; reject “Anne Brontë” or “Emily Brontë”]
[10h] The youngest Brontë sister, Anne, wrote this novel about the title governess who meets her husband Edward Weston while working for the Murray family.
ANSWER: Agnes Grey
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 11.11 | 67% | 44% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 63% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 10 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 89% | 56% | 22% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 80% | 40% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 21.25 | 63% | 100% | 50% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 18.89 | 89% | 89% | 11% |
Data
| Chicago B | Illinois B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Illinois A | WashU B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Illinois C | WashU A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern B | Illinois D | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Indiana | Iowa B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Notre Dame A | Purdue B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Notre Dame B | Chicago A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Purdue A | Purdue C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| SIUE | Iowa A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |