Question

In a short story, residents of a town only care about these objects and cabbages, and are horrified when the Devil corrupts one of them. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these objects central to the short story “The Devil in the Belfry.” In another story, an ebony-colored one of these objects appears in the last of seven different-colored rooms.
ANSWER: clocks (The second story is “The Masque of the Red Death”.)
[10e] This author wrote the stories “The Devil in the Belfry” and “The Masque of the Red Death.” He also wrote “The Tell-Tale Heart.”
ANSWER: Edgar Allan Poe
[10m] In Poe’s short story “A Predicament,” Signora Zenobia gains this condition due to a clock. In a short story by a different author, Brom Bones pretends to have this physical condition to scare Ichabod Crane.
ANSWER: being headless [accept any answer indicating a person without a head; prompt on being dead or being a ghost] (The second story is “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving.)
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2024 ACF Fall at CornellfallY917.78100%67%11%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio StatefallY822.50100%100%25%
2024 ACF Fall at GeorgiafallY1222.50100%83%42%
2024 ACF Fall at North CarolinafallY918.89100%78%11%
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont CollegesfallY520.00100%100%0%
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Virginia Tech BAppalachian State A0101020
Appalachian State BWilliam & Mary010010
Duke BJames Madison A0101020
Liberty BJames Madison B0101020
UNC CNC State0101020
Liberty ATusculum10101030
UNC DUNC A0101020
UNC BVirginia Tech A010010
VirginiaDuke A0101020