Question

Keith Neudecker cheats on his wife with Florence and becomes a poker player after this event in a novel titled for a famous photograph. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this event during which Oskar Schell’s father dies in the Jonathan Safran Foer novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
ANSWER: 9/11 [accept anything about the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center or the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001]
[10m] This author wrote about 9/11 in the novel Falling Man. This author also wrote about Jack Gladney, who teaches Hitler studies before the Airborne Toxic Event, in the novel White Noise.
ANSWER: Don DeLillo [or Donald Richard DeLillo]
[10e] In White Noise, Jack’s wife Babette takes the drug Dylar because she fears this concept. An Emily Dickinson poem is titled “Because I Could Not Stop for [this concept].”
ANSWER: death [accept fear of death; accept “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”]
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2024 ACF Fall at CornellfallY914.4489%33%22%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio StatefallY817.50100%38%38%
2024 ACF Fall at WashingtonfallY623.33100%50%83%
2024 ACF Fall at GeorgiafallY1119.09100%36%55%
2024 ACF Fall at North CarolinafallY917.78100%44%33%
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont CollegesfallY516.00100%20%40%
2024 ACF Fall at RutgersfallY816.25100%25%38%

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UCLA CClaremont C10101030
UCLA AUCLA E1001020
Claremont AUCLA B001010
UCSDUCLA D001010
USCClaremont B001010