Question
This author’s novella “The Monster” inspired a biography that follows his romance with Cora Taylor. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this subject of the biography Burning Boy. This author included his poem about a “naked, bestial” creature “in the desert” in the collection The Black Riders.
ANSWER: Stephen Crane
[10h] This author said that Crane’s poem “In the Desert” was about “how persistently we cling to our own misery.” This author of Burning Boy wrote a trilogy that includes the novels Ghosts and City of Glass.
ANSWER: Paul Auster [or Paul Benjamin Auster]
[10e] In an interview with NPR, Auster claimed that this novel is about “the interior life of an adolescent boy.” This Crane novel follows the soldier Henry Fleming.
ANSWER: The Red Badge of Courage
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 13.33 | 100% | 11% | 22% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 15.00 | 100% | 38% | 13% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida | 2024-11-16 | Y | 5 | 8.00 | 80% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 11.11 | 89% | 11% | 11% |
Data
| Northwestern A | UChicago D | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Notre Dame | UChicago A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Purdue A | UIUC C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Purdue C | UIUC D | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| UChicago C | Indiana A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UChicago B | UIUC A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| UIUC B | Purdue D | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| WashU B | Purdue B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| WashU D | SIUE A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |