Question
This author quoted playwright James Shirley in remarks he made after the hanging of John Brown. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author, who described Brown’s career as “meteor-like” in an essay titled for Brown’s “Last Days.” This author also wrote “A Plea for Captain John Brown.”
ANSWER: Henry David Thoreau
[10e] John Brown’s actions inspired the marching song “John Brown’s Body,” whose tune was based on one of these devotional songs. “John Brown’s Body” inspired Julia Ward Howe’s song titled “Battle [this type of song] of the Republic.”
ANSWER: hymn [accept “Battle Hymn of the Republic”]
[10m] This author called John Brown “the meteor of the war” in his poem “The Portent.” This author wrote a novella about a slave revolt led by Babo.
ANSWER: Herman Melville (The novella is Benito Cereno.)
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 12.86 | 100% | 29% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Penn B | Bard A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Haverford A | Johns Hopkins B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Penn A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn State A | Johns Hopkins A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Princeton A | Penn State B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Rowan A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Lehigh A | Rutgers A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |