Stephen Crane - 2024 ACF Winter at UBC

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


UW B	Alberta	0	10	10	20
UBC B	SFU	0	0	10	10
UBC A	UW A	10	0	10	20