Filipino-American - 2024 ACF Winter at UBC

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


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