the Devil - 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges

Question

Ama Ata Aidoo’s play Anowa is inspired by a Ghanaian folktale about a woman refusing to marry suitors from her parents only to marry this figure in disguise. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this figure that Aidoo based the slave trader Kofi Ako as in Anowa. This personification of evil reigns in hell in the epic poem “Paradise Lost.”

ANSWER: the Devil [or Satan or Lucifer]

[10m] In Anowa, an unnamed old man and woman perform this role in the play. In ancient Greek plays, a group of actors performed this role by commenting and singing about the play generally while off-stage.

ANSWER: chorus

[10h] This author also depicted the struggles of post-colonial families in the play I Will Marry When I Want. This Kenyan author wrote the novels A Grain of Wheat and Weep Not, Child in English before writing solely in Gikuyu.

ANSWER: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (“n-GOO-gee”) [or James Ngugi]

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	9	17.78	100%	78%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	8	21.25	100%	100%	13%
2024 ACF Fall at Washington	fall	Y	6	26.67	100%	100%	67%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	11	21.82	100%	73%	46%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	9	20.00	100%	89%	11%
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges	fall	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	8	21.25	100%	75%	38%
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois	fall	Y	9	23.33	100%	100%	33%

Data


UCLA A	Claremont C	10	10	20
UCLA D	Claremont A	10	10	20
UCSD	UCLA C	10	10	20
UCLA E	Claremont B	10	10	20
UCLA B	USC	10	10	20