Question
In “The Heart of the Sourdough,” the speaker describes fighting shoulder to shoulder with this “raw-ribbed” phenomenon that “abhors all life,” but admits that it “must win in the end.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this phenomenon. The protagonist of a novel named for this phenomenon has visions of a short-legged, hairy man while staying with John Thornton.
ANSWER: the call of the wild [prompt on the call; prompt on wolves’ howls; reject “the call of nature”]
[10e] Robert W. Service’s Songs of a Sourdough and Jack London’s The Call of the Wild are set during one of these historical events that occurred in the Klondike region of the Yukon.
ANSWER: gold rush [accept Klondike Gold Rush or Yukon Gold Rush or Alaska Gold Rush or Alaska–Yukon Gold Rush or Canadian Gold Rush]
[10h] Service’s poem “The Call of the Wild” describes a silence described by this adjective as an “eternal truth.” A character with this adjective becomes known as “blessed” after killing the convict Jim Hall.
ANSWER: white [accept “The White Silence;” accept “great white Silence”]
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Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 0% | 100% |
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