Question
A character in this novel is given a jimsonweed flower to play with as a distraction after he is told to stop watching men hitting golf balls. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this novel set in June 1910 and April 1928. A man in this novel who has his name changed from Maury frequently thinks that his sister “smelled like trees.”
ANSWER: The Sound and the Fury (by William Faulkner)
[10e] The Sound and the Fury ends with Jason Compson breaking one of these flowers held by his brother Benjy. The narrator sees a host of these “golden” flowers in William Wordsworth’s poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.”
ANSWER: daffodils [or narcissus]
[10h] In part two of the novel, Quentin Compson gets the aroma of this flower “all mixed up” in his memories of his sister Caddy. A real-life plaque by the Charles River states that Quentin drowned “in the odour of” this plant.
ANSWER: honeysuckle
<HG, American Literature>
Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 50% | 25% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 40% | 20% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 75% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| North Carolina B | South Carolina | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Virginia Tech C | Virginia Tech B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Virginia Tech A | North Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |