governess - 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers

Question

In one novel, a character with this profession states, “I am no bird, and no net ensnares me,” when her employer tries to stop her from leaving Thornfield Hall. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this profession which one character enters after she leaves Lowood School due to a typhus outbreak. That character educates Adèle Varens as part of this profession.

ANSWER: governess [prompt on nanny or babysitter or tutor]

[10e] The title character of this author’s novel Jane Eyre works as a governess. She published under the pen name Currer Bell as part of a group of three sisters.

ANSWER: Charlotte Brontë [prompt on Brontë; reject “Anne Brontë” or “Emily Brontë”]

[10h] The youngest Brontë sister, Anne, wrote this novel about the title governess who meets her husband Edward Weston while working for the Murray family.

ANSWER: Agnes Grey

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	9	11.11	67%	44%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	8	16.25	100%	63%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Washington	fall	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	10	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	9	16.67	89%	56%	22%
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges	fall	Y	5	12.00	80%	40%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	8	21.25	63%	100%	50%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	8	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois	fall	Y	9	18.89	89%	89%	11%

Data


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