Question
A chicken farmer is scammed into selling his farm to go to college in Cyprus in a novel narrated by one of these beings titled An Orchestra of Minorities. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this sort of being that “says yes also” when a man “says yes,” per a proverb repeated in another novel. That novel’s author translated his own first name as “may [one of these beings] fight for me.”
ANSWER: chi [prompt on personal gods] (An Orchestra of Minorities is by Chigozie Obioma.)
[10e] Chinua Achebe wrote “Chi in Igbo Cosmology” and called chi “personal gods” in this novel, the first of three he set in Umuofia.
ANSWER: Things Fall Apart
[10m] Nnu Ego dreams of her chi handing her a baby by the banks of a stream in this Igbo author’s novel The Joys of Motherhood. This “feminist with a small f” fictionalized her life in London in Second Class Citizen.
ANSWER: Buchi Emecheta [or Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta]
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Summary
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| McGill | Claremont Colleges | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley A | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Waterloo | Cornell A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
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| Indiana | Virginia | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Iowa State | Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Kentucky | North Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
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| Columbia A | Minnesota A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Harvard | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern | Penn | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
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| Truman State | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
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| Yale A | Arizona State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |