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
| Columbia J (DII) | Columbia B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Rutgers A (UG) | Fordham A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maryland A (DII) | Penn B (DII) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Penn A (DII) | NYU A (UG) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maryland B (DII) | NYU B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Lehigh A (UG) | Princeton A (UG) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rowan A (DII) | Lehigh B (DII) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers B | Bard A (UG) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |