Question

Helen Zenna Smith works in this profession in Evadne Price’s novel Not So Quiet. In a novel inspired by The Pilgrim’s Progress, the narrator and B., a man based on William Slater Brown, are fired from this profession on account of suspicious letters. While in this profession, the author Stephen Gordon falls in love with Mary Llewellyn near the end of The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall. An author’s time spent in this profession inspired a protagonist who, after handing out macaroni and cheese, is wounded alongside soldiers by a mortar. The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings (10[1])is about his time in this profession, (10[1])which the author John Dos Passos also held in (10[1])1917. (10[1])For 10 points, A Farewell to Arms (-5[1])was inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s experience (-5[1])helping (0[1])soldiers in what volunteer job during World War I? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: ambulance driver [accept member of an Ambulance Corps; prompt on driver by asking “of what vehicle?”; prompt on medic; reject “soldier”]
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Jisoon YooTexas AClaremont A9810
Isaac OlsonUW ARice A10510
Daniel NeylonTexas A&M BMichigan State A11410
Deepak MuthyalaTexas A&M AUBC A11510
Cameron WilliamsAppalachian StateSorbonne122-5
Anwitha VempaliIowa BIowa A128-5
Grace EarlyIowa AIowa B1290
Cormac BeirneSorbonneAppalachian State13910