Question
An author of this ethnicity wrote an essay about Norman Rockwell’s Freedom from Want that was published alongside the painting in The Saturday Evening Post. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this ethnicity of the author who wrote the novel America Is in the Heart based on his experiences as an immigrant.
ANSWER: Filipino-American [accept Pinoy; prompt on Asian-American]
[10e] The depiction of Great Depression-era farm work in Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart has led to it drawing comparisons to this novel by John Steinbeck about the Joad family.
ANSWER: The Grapes of Wrath
[10m] In America Is in the Heart, the narrator asks if there is a Moses of the Philippines and is told “Yes, … his name is [this author].” This Filipine national hero wrote the novels El filibusterismo and Noli Me Tángere.
ANSWER: José Rizal
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 15.71 | 100% | 43% | 14% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 10 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 12.86 | 100% | 0% | 29% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 12.86 | 100% | 29% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida | 2024-11-16 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 10 | 15.00 | 90% | 50% | 10% |
Data
| Bristol A | Durham B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cambridge C | Bristol B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cambridge A | Warwick B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Vanderbilt | Cambridge D | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Manchester | Durham A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Imperial A | Birmingham | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Imperial B | LSE A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Oxford B | LSE B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Edinburgh | Southampton B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Warwick A | Oxford A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |