Question

This character addresses the audience at the end of “The Sea and the Mirror” by W.H. Auden. This character uses the Swahili word for freedom, “uhuru,” before deciding to go by X in a play by Aimé (-5[1])Césaire (“ay-MAY say-ZAIR”). This character’s “rage” of “seeing his own face in a glass” is compared to “the nineteenth century dislike of realism” in the preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray. This character’s mother, who worships Setebos, is the witch Sycorax who trapped Ariel in a tree. This character gets drunk with Stephano and Trinculo (10[1])and plots (-5[1])to rape Miranda (10[1])and assassinate her father. (-5[1])For 10 points, name this slave of Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. ■END■ (10[1]0[4])

ANSWER: Caliban
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jude Mejia-VazquezRIT CBinghamton B36-5
Gregory StoneESFCornell B9010
Carlos GonzalezSyracuseCornell E92-5
Giuseppe PiccirilliBinghamton ACornell C9510
Will HooverRIT BCornell D99-5
Brian ChenCornell GBinghamton C11210
Anna KuangCornell ESyracuse1120
Pierce DeCainCornell FU of Rochester A1120
Aidan KeenanU of Rochester ACornell F1120
Bianca Van ZileBinghamton BRIT C1120

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