Question
In this novel, Val says, “Earth stirs in her winter sleep / And puts out grass and flowers…Despite the falling snow” while reciting the poem “She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this novel whose epigraphs include poems by Christabel LaMotte like “All Day snow fell.” In this novel, Roland Michell works with the LaMotte scholar Dr. Maud Bailey.
ANSWER: Possession: A Romance (The author is A. S. Byatt.)
[10e] Possession references the poem “She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep”, written by this author of the poem “Hedges Freaked with Snow” and the historical novel I, Claudius.
ANSWER: Robert Graves
[10m] In the postscript of Possession, LaMotte is told, “‘Tell your aunt…you met a poet, who was looking for [this character].” In a Keats poem with a French title, this woman seduces a “knight-at-arms” in an “Elfin grot.”
ANSWER: La Belle Dame sans Merci [prompt on la belle dame]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 15.71 | 71% | 57% | 29% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 14.29 | 71% | 43% | 29% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 6 | 5.00 | 17% | 17% | 17% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 10.00 | 63% | 25% | 13% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida | 2024-11-16 | Y | 5 | 8.00 | 60% | 20% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 10 | 12.00 | 60% | 50% | 10% |
Data
| Birmingham | Cambridge C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cambridge A | Imperial B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cambridge B | Durham A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Warwick A | Cambridge D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Manchester | Edinburgh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Imperial A | Oxford B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| LSE B | Bristol B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Oxford A | Bristol A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Warwick B | Southampton A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Durham B | Vanderbilt | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |