Question
This poet wrote three letters to an unknown addressee only called “Master.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this poet who corresponded with Thomas Wentworth Higginson and wrote the line “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers.”
ANSWER: Emily Dickinson [or Emily Elizabeth Dickinson]
[10h] This poet of “Flaxman” wrote a letter calling then-dead Beethoven “Master” and had a biography written by Higginson. This author published a book originally titled “The Great Lawsuit” in a journal she edited.
ANSWER: Margaret Fuller [or Sarah Margaret Fuller or Margaret Fuller Ossoli]
[10m] Fuller and Dickenson appear during a tea party in this author’s play about Alice James, Alice in Bed. This author calls the title subject “good because it’s awful” in “Notes on ‘Camp.’”
ANSWER: Susan Sontag [or Susan Lee Sontag]
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Summary
2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 15.71 | 86% | 43% | 29% |
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 11.43 | 86% | 29% | 0% |
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 83% | 33% | 0% |
2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 14.29 | 100% | 43% | 0% |
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida | 2024-11-16 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 10 | 13.00 | 90% | 40% | 0% |
Data
Miami | Indiana B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Notre Dame | Purdue C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Purdue B | UChicago B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Purdue D | UChicago D | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
UChicago A | SIUE A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
UIUC A | WashU B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Northwestern A | WashU D | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |